<p>That’s general enough to be true. </p>
<p>What bothers me is telling someone s/he is a ‘lock.’</p>
<p>“and south easttitan you can have fun with the novel semantics if you want. I honestly don’t care what people on the internet think of my precise choice of words.”</p>
<p>That’s fine. I still remain suspicious of somebody who can’t even correctly describe the genre of the book they’re supposedly about to get published by HarperCollins.</p>
<p>“im working on it being published by random house, i have a friend who’s father works with the company’s head office.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>lobster: I see you’ve posted the exact item in Harvard, Princeton and Columbia DGs but haven’t posted on CC before. What have you learned from those forums?</p>
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<p>I agree with this. The language of manuscript v. published book, autobiography v. novel, author v. writer, seems to escape the OP. Which makes me doubt him even more!</p>
<p>I would really like to know how you were able to take an SAT II in European History. If you can explain that successfully, you’re in.</p>
<p>Lawl, I didn’t even notice that. What a big old ■■■■■.</p>