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...knew it was time for me to hand in my work when I woke up that morning, panicked. I had neglected to place accents on my "detentes." Ca alors! I tore open my spring binders, despondent at the prospect of reprinting the two manuscripts, 137 pages each, that had kept me up near dawn feeding the printer the night before. I grew more desperate as my Microsoft Word failed to find any suitable candidates for "search and replace." But suddenly, an epiphany. My addled brain had conflated "detente" with "deterrence"--a good old American word, without all those French accents...
...just any book. Publishing sources say that a few years ago, Buchanan attempted to shop around a weighty manuscript on his 1992 campaign. No takers. A dutiful account of a short-lived presidential bid didn't look like a good bet. Buchanan might do better this time, says a prominent editor, if he offered a book on "how Dole and the Establishment tried to force him out of the race...
Sullivan wrote in the proposal that he wants to expand upon the research he has already done and develop it into a fully researched book manuscript with an accompanying CD-ROM disk...
...publishing house has the right to reject any manuscript it does not deem worthy of print. If Cambridge University Press deems Karakasidou's book unpublishable, Karakasidou has the right to peddle it to other presses. If the book has value, then the market system predicts that other presses will be willing to publish it. The staff quietly notes that the University of Chicago Press is willing...
...Apparently Joan Collins discussed the writing process while she was on the stand," my wife said one morning. True. Arguing that Random House's response to her manuscript should have been to send over a couple of the gnomes it keeps in the basement to write the books celebrities sign, she described the writing process as "a living amoeba...