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" Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published. "
Victoria Strauss
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" Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while. "
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" Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere. "
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" It can be hard to say if someone has a deliberate intent to defraud or if they are just really, really bad at their business. But even if people are unpublishable, it doesn't mean they should be ripped off. "
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