Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
Episode: Writerly Insults - 21 October 2013
Description: Sure, itâs scary to send your writing to a literary agent. But pity the poor agent who must wade through hundreds of terrible query letters a week! One of them shares excerpts from those hilariously bad query letters on a blog called SlushPile Hell. And get ready for some colorful conversation: Purple cows do existâonly theyâre made with grape soda and ice cream. And yes, Virginia, there IS an English word that rhymes with âorangeâ! Plus, catawampus, mesmerize, allâs Iâm saying, plus messing and gauming.Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, sen...