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Originally Posted by Soldim
Well, if they'd be any good they would have been contracted by a real publishing house, isn't it?  |
That's simply not true. Publishing houses consider many things before deciding whether to sign an author. A major focus is on the market. For example, two excellent authors who should be signed by a major publisher -- Shayne Parkinson and Vicki Tyley -- lose points because they are from New Zealand and Australia. If only excellent writing was the criterion, they would have been signed long ago.