Ya, the old story about the Thomas Covenant books (apocryphal or not), after being shopped to 19 different publishers, being bought by the same publisher they were initially shown to is a good example of the "human factor". Luck...well, that's always a factor in any business. The "Fickle Finger of Fate" is an invisible weathervane in all human endeavors.
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Date: 2006-04-25 03:24 am (UTC)ttyl