>>113985442>never send anything unsolicitedmostly they won't even look at it
if you're talking about major publishers it'll never get through their firewall, if you send them physical mail someone in the mail room will shred it or just mail it straight back to you unopened
nobody wants to spend 6 months dealing with legal claims from an idiot who had an unoriginal idea and thought that it got copied
there are such things as open sub windows for some publishers, and those are usually pretty tight in terms of what they want, how much of it they want etc; competition is usually high as well
mostly publishers don't do that because they don't want to deal with idiots
>>113985477in fairness to him and to you if they're publishing awfulness it's probably genre requirement
also, it's really hard for a publisher to grade 1000 submissions where the best 100 are not quite as good as the top 10; so if the end result is intentionally bad because of the genre, then you're going to get a lot of awful, hard to grade subs
>>113985553there are no writing rules which apply universally: the danger of reading bad writing is that you waste your life reading bad writing and learning nothing you didn't already know or couldn't have intuited for yourself
>>113985946indy publishers in comic books are basically vanity publishers if they're hiring no-name writers; most Image titles never make any money for the creative team after their production costs are factored in
also, git gud at business economics if you're intending to be self employed, you especially need to understand cost curves if you're going to work on lots of projects
nepotism is very unusual among publishers who like to make money; mostly it's down to luck and an unseen pool of pretty much equally talented unknowns like yourself; some of it is unique ideas but mostly it's about writing something which is exciting to read, even if it's derivative crap
