That the right, brilliant blurb by Author X will impress the publisher readers, reviewers, bookseller--and of course our friends, family, and fans.
This series spans the 1960s-1990s, incorrespondenceondence with editors and publishers, reader's reports, drafts and copies of reviews, and publicity material such as brochures and advertisements.
I learned subsequently that both publishers' readers who examined it had turned it down.
Surely, if we are seeking excellence – as judges, publishers, readers – the only way to find it is to read widely, fearlessly.
A young person who aspires to create and to maintain an authorial identity could do worse than to study White's letters to publishers, readers, movie people and Elledge.
I'm talking here about the new author in the era of new media, but too, about literary agents, editors, publishers, readers, librarians -- People of the Book.
The unsolicited manuscript was read by a publisher's reader, Jan Perkins.
Editors were affronted, one publisher's reader calling the central characters "repulsive almost beyond belief".
From 1959 to 1969 Tennant worked as a journalist, a publisher's reader, and a literary adviser and editor.
He taught philosophy only intermittently, usually earning his living as a publisher's reader, editor, writer, and critic.
