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Old 08-16-2015, 12:54 PM   #140
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
The keywords there are "Jim Baen used to". Lots of old-timey editors (who basically held the reins of the publishing world at the time) "used to" do that. But that kind of "mentoring/molding editor/publisher" has been basically extinct for quite awhile now. Where ya been?
John W Campbell Jr , when he was the editor at Analog, mentored a goodly number of authors.
Some made it to the big time.
Some of those are still alive today.
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