for all American Writers
for all American Writers
Dear DOJ. As an American Writer, I call for a plea to help us in our time of need. It appears the American Publishing Industry has forgotten about the American Writer. What was once common sense and providing the Great American People with quality writing in a fair industry has become an industry filled with Publishers, most of whom reject a great deal of good work. The large publishers don't even write their rejection letters. Instead they mail them via a system known as "Mechanical Rejection" whereby the writer finds a rejection slip in their mail, by a monopolistic organization that doesn't read their material and doesn't even have people replying to them. While I applaud certain smaller publishers for their efforts in the overloaded marketplace, the system is broken. Any writer will tell you how hard it is to get a book published. It's almost impossible for new talent to emerge. It has now been said that it is harder to get a paperback novel published than to get a movie made. Considering the WGA West estimated in 1996 that it received 70,000 submissions and that less than 150 movies got made, I'd say those are pretty lousy odds of getting published, let alone a movie to production.
My second part of this plea goes towards scam artists who are preying on the Talented American Author. These scams come in the form of reading fees and book doctors. One writer submitted an altered copy of Gone with the Wind, only to have it rejected by agents. The time has come to prosecute these literary trampling thieves and put em behind bars for good. While I will name no names here, I will leave it to you. But if your investigators start looking into the American Publishing industry, you will find monopolies and scams that make any other Monopoly Industry pale in comparison. And so Department of Justice, I call on you As an abandoned American Artist to investigate and help with the Federal Government to correct a system that doesn't work anymore. This is an industry that is screaming for Government intervention. It is filled with monopolies and scam artists and is crumbling the American Literary Establishment as you read this very plea.
Where you can write your plea to the U.S.D.O.J. for JUSTICE!
I thank you for your time, Sincerely American Author/Poet/Screenwriter (unpublished) "Mark Paul" Sebar
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