Rejecting Jane Austen

[mcroft]

Not a bad little stunt. Some guy submitted the first three chapters of Pride And Prejudice to major publishers, and most of them didn't recognize it.

I'm not 100% convinced that the ones that didn't respond at all actually read it, but the guy is assuming that they didn't notice because they didn't comment.

I bet he could get it published by Publish America...

Comments

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Oh, I guarantee you they recognized the books and promptly round-filed them. "It is a truth universally acknowledged..." it one of the most famous opening lines in the English languages. Why waste the stamp, letter, envelope, and ink on stunt "writers?"