“This is stupid. I now have stupid all over me.”

—  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

"Bad advice on cover letters", in Making Light (18 May 2004) http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/005212.html

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American science fiction editor, fanzine publisher, essayis… 1959

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