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Is it illegal to copy out the first couple of chapters of once semi-famous but now obscure novels and send them to literary agents to see if they'll be accepted or not?
I recently sent out the first three chapters of John Barth's "The Floating Opera" and it was rejected 7 times.
I then sent out the first three chapters of John Edward Williams's "Nothing But The Night" and had the same result.
Can I get v& for this?
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Probably. If you get caught then "It was just an experiment!" Is going to sound extremely feeble.
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>>8316931
nope, but they're also better read than you and think you're a loser plagiarist
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Did they explain the cause for rejecting it? Because maybe the first thing they check is if it's not a copy of other works.
Also, answering your question, I think it probably is illegal, but you'll hardly get caught as long as you don't actually send the full work as yours if requested.
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>>8316965
I am a loser plagiarist, that's the point here. It's an experiment to see if books published 50 years ago would be published today.
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>>8316977
they run it through plagiarism tests, you nimrod. they know you're just sending them old books, they're not rejecting it because it's bad, they're rejecting it because it's been published.
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>>8316972
They just said they carefully considered it but had to turn it down unfortunately.
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>>8316931
reminder that Dylan Roof is not effay
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