Marks of the amateur, shall we count the ways? He's hit most of them, between his blog and the way he's put up his excerpt (and the fact the thing seems to be e-pubbed or POD'ed).
It never ceases to amaze me how consistent wannabe writers are. I was seeing every single one of these faux pas, except the e-pub one (back then it was xoxed copies of the ms. carried under the writer's arm as he went from conference to conference) 20 and more years ago in various slushpiles and fanzines (the Internet being a very tiny and obscure thing at the time). The "wimmin are taking over the publishing world" whine was old when sf was young, and I saw one almost identical to this in the SFWA Forum (from a one-story associate member) in the 1980s.
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It never ceases to amaze me how consistent wannabe writers are. I was seeing every single one of these faux pas, except the e-pub one (back then it was xoxed copies of the ms. carried under the writer's arm as he went from conference to conference) 20 and more years ago in various slushpiles and fanzines (the Internet being a very tiny and obscure thing at the time). The "wimmin are taking over the publishing world" whine was old when sf was young, and I saw one almost identical to this in the SFWA Forum (from a one-story associate member) in the 1980s.
The words, the tune--they never change.