I know. I know. It’s pathetic that I’m actually writing a post to bitch about “One Tree Hill” but the TV landscape has become so empty that I can’t help watching it. However, after seeing how they handle the publishing world… well it just pissed me off.

So Lucas, one of the main characters, who has no writing experience nor has he ever taken a writing class writes a novel. He submits it to a billion publishers and gets back a billion rejections, but then magically the only large publisher that hasn’t rejected him calls and says that they read his manuscript and want to publish it.

First off… you don’t submit to publishers. You submit to agents. Even then you don’t ever send a full manuscript you send a query letter (sometimes you send the first three chapters of a novel depending on the agency’s policies). If the agency liks your query letter they will ask for the first three chapters and if they like the first three chapters they will ask for the full manuscript. Then, once you have an agent, that agent is the one who submits to the publishers!

Since there are actual writers working on “One Tree Hill” (though seriously who gets paid to write this crap) you’d think at least ONE of them would know how things work in the “publishing” world as opposed to the film world. Idiots!