Thread: Do you read or avoid books recommended by Oprah Winfrey?
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Old 12-30-2008, 11:21 AM   #111
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Originally Posted by Alisa View Post
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.
I thought something similar while reading it... I would imagine just saying 'Thank you for your submission but we are not interested at this time' would be a standard response from a publisher's legal department. Of course for someone 'struggling to have his own novel published' there has to be more to the story then that no one likes his work or they just passed over it. So of course the publishers are idiots. I tend to think most of them either didn't read it or did and didn't want to deal with it. And the media just likes a good story. Hell, the "seems like a really original " comment might have just been a sarcastic response.

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