Posted by: keegan (155 posts)
October 11, 200710:12 PM

This is another illo for the "Soapbox" column in Publisher's Weekly.

Author Steve Weinberg laments the fact that once you are a bona fide published writer, you immediately become besieged by people looking to get their manuscripts (of varying degrees of quality) published.

He writes:

"When my telephone rings, I almost always check the caller ID before I answer. If the number and name look unfamiliar, I assume that the caller probably is (a) a prison inmate, or (b) a would-be author seeking advice about publishing a book."