Are publishers biased against unknown writers a test case
Chicago writer Chuck Ross ran an experiment by copying Jerzy Kosinski’s Steps and submitting it under a different author and title to fourteen publishers and thirteen agents. All rejected the untitled manuscript, prompting reflection on gatekeeping in publishing and encouraging Ross to keep writing.
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Jerzy Ko
Sinski
Julian Bach
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New West Magazine
Tomorrow
American Booksellers Association
World's first lower spine replacement patient shows improvement
Jessie Thomas, 33, who underwent a 16 hour operation to replace her lower spine with an eight inch metal implant, is alert with stable vitals. She communicates by writing on a blackboard while a tracheal tube may soon be removed and doctors expect at least two weeks on the stabilization frame.
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Baltimore
UPI
Jessie Thomas
University of Maryland Hospital
Peter Stanton
Charles Edwards
Thomas
Edwards
University Hospital
Bastille Storm Sparks French Revolution Warning
In 1789 an angry mob seized the Bastille in Paris triggering the French Revolution. Grasshoppers have long caused crop damage in North America with about 600 species across the region affecting wheat barley corn flax alfalfa oats rye cotton and tobacco.
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