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Originally Posted by Alisa
It is quite possible that they rejected them because they didn't want to engage in any further communication with a crazy person. If they figured they might have some deranged soul on their hands who actually believed they wrote Jane Austen's novels, it would seem simpler to send a generic rejection than involve themselves and invite reply by pointing out the facts. I probably would have done the same.
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More likely the sample chapters were not read at all. They were unsolicited submissions after all, without an agent. There was one Alex Bowler who did call the fraud. But, perhaps, if Oprah had recommended Lassman, his books would have been published. I would have loved to own a first edition of
First Impressions.
