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Originally Posted by Russell Brooks
Isn't it amazing how established authors can afford to make mistakes that new authors could never get away with?
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I think it was her first big success, actually -- and something like 20 publishers rejected it first. I'm not sure what the deal was on its publication, or how it became such a huge success.
I'm equally mystified by the success of Dan Brown.
Stephen King I can understand...he's so big now that his books will sell even with all the egomaniacal lengthy descriptions in them. But in the old days, he was edited down to reasonable lengths. I much prefer his novellas (Shawshank Redemption; Dolores Claiborn) to his novels.
eP, you have a point about the binding issue no longer being an issue. I think the huge numbers of self-published books are also an indication that some authors don't want to deal with editors.