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reading a bit 'of publishing interviews with young rising stars (such as Federico Ghirardi, Thomas Mazzantini) I got the idea that when a publisher decides to colonize a new genus (eg : Fantasy Moccikosy) the following criterion for the choice is to publish the manuscript of the first shit that comes under our noses.


On the blog of Mr Stockfish Shrimps wrote:

Io c’ero, so come è andata.

INT. GIORNO Uffici della Newton & Compton

Entra il direttore editoriale.

D: “A Cristià, ma che, me stai ancora a le straggi e a li servizzi deviati? Svejate bello! Queli de la Enaudi stanno a fa’ er botto co ‘a Strazzu, e noi ce stamo a fa’ magnà er manfano da le mosche! Quelli ce fanno ‘n bucio così!”

A: “Vabbe’, ma che dovrei fare?”

D: “Te devi d’aripijà! Trovame n’artro moccicoso che scrive robbe de draghi, prima de subbito!”

Esce sbattendo la porta.
A***** sospira, chiude il faldone con gli atti della commissione parlamentare d’inchiesta. Scende nel seminterrato e apre il bidone della carta da riciclare, tira fuori i manoscritti fantasy arrivati negli ultimi sei mesi. Scarta tutti quelli dove l’autore è nato prima del 1990, e dei rimanenti legge la prima pagina, seduto su una pila di libri alla luce della lampadina da 15 Watt. Fa una sosta all’una e un quarto per un tramezzino, poi si rimette al lavoro. Scarta tutti quelli che non sono scritti in italiano. Alle 16,23 ne è rimasto solo uno: Bryan di Boscoquieto.

Alle 16,24 è nell’ufficio del direttore editoriale e glielo molla sulla scrivania.

A: "Here it is a bomb."
D: (peering into the title), "Are you sure? Braian de Wirewood? "
A:" Absolutely. Never read anything like it. "
D:" Anyways, 'Daje: trust me. Tiramone 10,000 copies printed to see 'what happens. "

A ***** it back to the office with a sense of relief and goes back to do more serious things.

Some time after a mysterious Joan of Arc on the same blog he writes:

Guys, for those who want to know how it really happened, and that there are mechanisms for publication of basic rileggetevi's comment, "Mr. Stockfish.
sounds like a parody ... but it's exactly what happened.
Even I was there.

Mazzantini And then there's the author of the excellent (for starting the fire) Garmir eclissiomante for the types and Baldini Castoldi Dalai:

How did you meet as a publisher Baldini and Castoldi? It is certainly not bad for a rookie ...

I learned from a family friend that the publishers of Baldini Castoldi Dalai had a house in Elba, Marina di Campo. So I went there with my scooter and I brought them to read the manuscript. Fortunately, this was their son, who read for first novel and has advised parents to check it out. They did so and soon after I was contacted. In practice, I was lucky.

The Ghirardi, as he himself tells us, did not follow the conventional way of sending the manuscript and would address instead of the one person who would be his future editor at a book fair and trimmed the manuscript on the spot.


*****

So, dear friends writers seeking publication, here's a nice pentalogy:

1) sniff the air, follow the smell.

2) Once identified as a new fashion, be quick to jot down from 300 to 700 pages. Do not re-read, not once, so he will not even your editor.

3) Go find editors at home, playing on the intercom if necessary at 3 am (this is essential).

4) Four.

5) Be lucky.