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To: EdLake
It's sometimes hard to tell one person from another when you say exactly the same things.

No comment, Sherlock.

By the way, Ed, thanks for repeatedly posting the link to your website. Have you found a publisher for your book yet? You probably will soon, and it shouldn't be that hard -- Matsumoto never has problems finding publishers.

111 posted on 01/23/2004 10:46:04 PM PST by TrebleRebel (If you're new to the internet, CLICK HERE.)
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To: TrebleRebel
By the way, Ed, thanks for repeatedly posting the link to your website.

Because of the snowstorm yesterday, I had the time to look up how to post "hot" links. So, I practiced a bit. ;-)

Have you found a publisher for your book yet? You probably will soon, and it shouldn't be that hard -- Matsumoto never has problems finding publishers.

Matsumoto has the right credentials and the right contacts. Getting a book published is all about good credentials and good contacts. I have neither.

If you don't have the right credentials, you are just another guy who thinks he can write a book. Publishers get hundreds of letters each week from such people. They even have terms for it. The letters come in "over the transom", meaning they come in without a good referral. And because of that, they go onto the "slush pile", which is the stack of letters someone will read when they get the time.

Yesterday I received a good example of what happens when a person who doesn't have a referral sends out a query letter. It's HERE.

Note that it was returned unopened. Note that they knew what was in the letter without opening it. Note that they have a rubber stamp to tell people how to properly send such letters.

Ed

113 posted on 01/24/2004 8:44:57 AM PST by EdLake
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