Be careful out there. It's a crap shoot...
I read this earlier. Hilarious! Are we really surprised?
Crap shoot, yes. But if you know somebody...
It's not what you know, but who you know? I am in so much trouble!
Focus on writing the best you can. The rest, pardon my French, c'est des conneries!
You gotta wonder how many of them recognized it and sent it off with a form rejection while silently blacklisting the fictitious author.
Huge waste of time. This business is tough enough without having to worry about dummies submitting dummy work to (most likely) tired interns who read 50+ stories a day on top of all the other shit they have to do. That "experiment" proves nothing except everybody's tastes are different and how you read a story one day may not be the same another day (which is also proof of the story's mediocrity in the first place). Everybody's on the same team, yo!
Well, you know, Matt, a deer is basically a hoofed mouse with better weapons...
;-)
SO true.