The Business of Writing Way Back in the Day (#2)
I could have titled this "Finding a Publisher." With my nicely typed, no mistakes manuscript all ready to go--how did I find out where to send it? Writer's Digest big Marketing Book. (Bought each year's new copy for a long time.) The procedure was to find a publisher looking for the genre of Two Ways West, historical family saga, write an introductory letter, and include it with a synopsis of the book, and stamped self-addressed envelope, and put everything into a box with my address and return postage, and put it inside another box with the publisher's name and address on it. Back in the day, they sold boxes that fit inside of each other for this specific purpose. Then off to the post office to launch the book. Of course the hope was that the self-addressed stamped envelope would come back with an acceptance letter from the publisher, not the box with the manuscript inside. However, that's what happened time after time. And when it came back, th...