{"id":586,"date":"2006-07-28T07:33:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T12:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=586"},"modified":"2020-01-02T15:54:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:54:36","slug":"editors-noses-knowses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/editors-noses-knowses\/","title":{"rendered":"Editors’ noses knowses"},"content":{"rendered":"

POD-DY Mouth sponsored a contest this week<\/a>: she posted excerpts from 24 novels. Some were from commercially published books; some were from POD books.<\/p>\n

The object of the contest was to figure out which was which.<\/p>\n

I tried it and got half of them right. Nobody scored more than 80 percent.<\/p>\n

But here’s what’s most telling, from her post-contest post:<\/p>\n

The statistics are interesting, though–far more on point that I would’ve imagined. Here are the average scores broken down by group:<\/p>\n

Average Score, Editors: 63% (19 exams)
\nAverage Score, Agents: 60% (26 exams)
\nAverage Score, Authors: 53% (72 exams)
\nAverage Score, Other: 46% (550 exams +\/-)<\/p>\n

So it turns out editors and agents have a keener eye than I’d guessed. I suppose it makes sense that unpublished works go from author to agent to editor. Looks like we’re not turning the publishing industry on its ear anytime soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah. And if you want someone’s advice on whether your WIP is publishable, you’re better off trusting an agent’s rejection letter than a lay person’s high praise.<\/p>\n

But we already knew that, didn’t we ;-)<\/p>\n

(Btw, POD-DY Mouth doesn’t support permalinks, so if you’ve come across this post after 7\/28\/06, you’ll need to scroll down to the entry from the 27th to find the post from which I’ve quoted.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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