Chance a nervous author?

4th_house
Sun, 31 May 2009 13:14:19 +0000

“im working on it being published by random house, i have a friend who’s father works with the company’s head office.”

This means absolutely nothing. One hundred million would-be authors blow this same kind of smoke and their books never get published. Unless you say in your app that you have simply finished a manuscript (and yes, your choice of words means a lot. It is the difference between truth and a lie), you are being misleading, and folks get rejected for lying or being misleading on their apps. All you have at this point is a manuscript, not “a book about to be published.” You are also not an author, but an aspiring author. If you don’t think your choice of words matters, wait 'til you start having to explain about things like plagiarism or libel, then you’ll learn that choice of words is everything.