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   Toon to evilsnackKOSHER@hotmail.com   
   Re: PS/SS - I Have My Doubts   
   07 Dec 10 08:01:14   
   
   From: toon@toon.com   
      
   On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:14:23 -0500, John VanSickle   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 12/5/2010 4:45 PM, Draco Malfoy wrote:   
   >> My burning issue with PS/SS is that I'm surprised it ever got into   
   >> print. If I were the publisher it was presented to I would have   
   >> rejected it.   
   >   
   >I haven't checked, but I doubt that HP was accepted by the very first   
   >publisher to see the manuscript.  Many successful books were rejected   
   >multiple times by editors before being accepted and published.   
      
   About 30 times some say.  And it only got through because the   
   assistant liked her paper clip.  Of course, now those 30 editors are   
   kicking themselves over it.   
      
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