Would you publish Jane Austen? http://lulu.wikidot.com/forum/t-14198/would-you-publish-jane-austen Posts in the discussion thread "Would you publish Jane Austen?" - Rejection slips for slightly amended literary classics Most failed to identify novelist's celebrated work http://lulu.wikidot.com/forum/t-14198#post-36351 Re: Would you publish Jane Austen? http://lulu.wikidot.com/forum/t-14198/would-you-publish-jane-austen#post-36351 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:26:23 +0000 Peter Rogerson 7143 Is it any wonder that we all end up turning to Lulu? But I've just read the article linked above and the phrases of rejection used by publishers and agents are word-for-word familiar to me. I don't even think there's an office boy. I think there's a crazed answering machine that's been faulty this past fifty years.
Peter

]]> http://lulu.wikidot.com/forum/t-14198#post-35501 Would you publish Jane Austen? http://lulu.wikidot.com/forum/t-14198/would-you-publish-jane-austen#post-35501 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:07:13 +0000 SusanatLulu 6968 Hello

I heard a piece on the Today programme this morning about a chap who had sent the opening chapters of some of Jane Austen's books to various publishers, with just the title and character and place names changed. Were the books recognised? Read on!

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2129738,00.html#article_continue

Since having the freedom to publish what I want through Lulu I have not tried mainstream publishers but it does make you wonder about the "quality" of some publishers' readers.

Susan

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