Word: rossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They rejected the identical Steps manu script nine years after they had published it. In all 14 publishers and 13 literary agents failed to recognize the book when it was sent unsolicited by an author who called himself Erik Demos. Demos is the nom de hoax chosen by Chuck Ross, a Los Angeles freelance writer out to prove what thousands of aspiring first novelists already know: it is virtually impossible for an unknown author to break into print through the U.S. mails with what is known in the trade as an "over the transom" manuscript. One of the extremely rare...
...latest issue of New West magazine, Ross discloses that he first conducted the Steps experiment in 1975. At that time he sent 21 pages of the book to four publishers. Results of this first total rejection were published in Harper's Bookletter, a now defunct biweekly. That article also contained Kosinski's advice that next time Ross should offer the entire text of Steps...
When he did, two years later, not a memory trace of the first episode remained in the publishing world. Rejection slips again crowded Ross's mailbox. "While your prose style is very lucid," wrote Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, "the content of the book didn't inspire the level of enthusiasm ..." After a long delay, Random House sent a form letter, and an editor at William Morrow postscripted a consolation: "Sorry, I liked the opening gambit. Why don't you find an agent...
Guillermo Novo and Alvin Ross Diaz could receive life prison terms and Novo's brother Ignacio faces a maximum 13 years in prison after his conviction on two counts of lying to a grand jury and one count of covering up the crime...
Commenting on the changes which the community and police have been resisting, 18-year veteran Sergeant Ralph Ross told the Washington Post last summer, "You have to understand one thing about this department; up until the mid-'70s, it was a known fact that if you came into P.G. County and made trouble the police would kick your head in. Simple as that. The county had that image and wanted it that way. The police were encouraged to be that way. But times have changes and that sort of thing wasn't allowed any more...