Peanuts by Charles Schulz for March 06, 2021

For short stories, ask them to recycle the paper and send an envelope for their reply. Most likely reprinting the story is cheaper than the postage and some idiot will drop coffee stains on it anyway.

good try anyway, Snoopy

Easy solution: Include two times as much postage, so if they like the story enough to buy it they can send back the postage for the story.

Charlie Brown’s the one who’s supposed to be wishy-washy . . .

Good move Snoopy. Any publisher wants a writer who is sure of his own mind and confident of his abilities. Writing here’s postage for if you don’t buy it, is self fulfilling.

Of course nowadays many if not most submissions are electronic so there’s no postage involved.

To include postage or not include postage…that is the question!

This does not bode well when the title of the book is “The Art of Decision Making.”

A waste of a forever stamp or two…

that was a waste of time

Snoopy needs a mimeograph machine.

That’s why I don’t submit my ideas to publishers.

The typewriter still works after throwing it at Lucy…

I’ve never had an article rejected. Everything has been published.

The real alternative back then was to add a note to dispose of it rather than sending it back. Nowadays, almost no publishers want a paper copy! This has saved the lives of a multitude of trees.

It’s important to know when you’re kicked, Snoopy.

Some things are just not worth the effort…..

I always thought it was better to just keep a copy and not give the publisher an easy reason to return it

In the old days, you always included SASE if you wanted your material returned.

Getting a little wishy washy there, Snoopy.

Thank God the internet has done away with sending return postage and snail mail when sending in your manuscripts to agents or publishers. Now we can email them with an attachment.

Oh yeah…the days before Amazon Prime.

That kind of arguement sent to the publisher is sure to get them to return the manuscript without even looking at it.

Race conditions of the 1960’s.

Switch to digital, Snoopy, and you would not bother.

Good grief … what a decision.

Best of luck, Snoopy.