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echo: writing
to: BARBARA SHAFFERMAN
from: CARL THAMES
date: 1998-04-26 22:06:00
subject: REJECT II

BS>CT> BS>Luckily my novel was too thick for a paper clip, so I didn't ruin
BS>CT> its BS>chances with the fatal plastic clips. 
BS>CT>    You will probably never know just how close you came.
BS>CT>   I know this sounds trivial, but some editors really ARE that
BS>CT> trivial, and if your mss deviates even that much from the standard,
BS>CT> it can get bounced, and nobody wants that.
BS>Well, I ended up with cardboard and GIANT rubber bands. Guess that was
BS>all right, because it finally did get accepted. Wonder if Tolstoy used
BS>plastic clips 
It wouldn't have mattered, since he didn't have that particular editor.

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