The world gathered round from paupers to kings,
I’ll answer your questions, I’ll answer them true,
I’ll show the way you know what to do,
Who is wrong and who is right?
Yellow, brown or black or white?
The spaceman he answered “You’ll no longer mind...
I’ve opened your eyes, you’re now colour blind.”
In looking for inspiration for the editing process, this little diddy has been the most helpful thus far. "Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic" taught me that it doesn't matter how crappy my book is; if my name is Douglas Adams/Terry Jones it'll probably get published. (I chose to read it first because the introduction made a reference to publishers being from planet Zog, and in my book there just happened to be a Planet Zogg.)
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Man, isn't that always the way?
If the publisher has the choice between excellent space novel X, by unknown author, and excellent space novel Y, by famous person, Y will be the novel selected.
I guess the goal is to establish some kind of marketable name recognition.
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