peacegirl wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 12:33 pm
I have an audio of the first chapter, if you'd like to hear the author speak. I converted a tape he recorded in the 1970s to an mp3.
So the first chapter was written four decades ago. And I bet the author was not ildly sitting on his manuscript; I suspect he was sending it to publishers left, right, and centre.
The publishers did not like it. Why should I?
belinda wrote:The author is laboriously discovering and longwindedly explaining ideas that have already been explained by better writers than he. This is one of the benefits of higher education; that the graduate is familiar with ideas and is experienced in communicating them. I'm not surprised that the author failed to get a lot of interest. Was the book 's publication financed by himself?
This what Belinda wrote may be precisely why publishers rejected the MS.
There are other problems with your selling process:
peacegirl wrote:Well accept this as an exception. It almost feels like a stand-off. If you don’t do my way, and distill the info into a few words, I am too busy to give you the time of day. It’s sad to think that because I don’t do it your way, you refuse to read a few pages that would be much clearer in is it’s explanation than me trying to satisfy you by offering snippets. If it’s too hard for you because it’s not entertaining enough, as I already said, don’t read what I’m sharing but then don’t tell how wrong the author was because you are so positive we have free will.
It may be sad, but it may be joyful as well, saving us a lot of grief. Our chances at this point are precisely 50-50 that it's a worthwhile reading or crap reading.
That is not good risk for committing to read 600 pages or even 3 chapters.
Since YOU read it, and can't say anything good about it other than that it's "good", we can't believe you. If there were anything good about the book that stood out, you would be able to tell us what it is.
Thirdly, I am not even sure if I can trust your judgment. Your English is poor. Written English. Not a criticism, but just stating a fact. I don't judge you for your English; but I judge your ability to tell what's good and what's not good based on your English correspondence.
Fourthly, you say "I am too busy to give you the time of day." I assume it's "too busy" for "writing a one-page review or summary or blurb". I can't believe you are too busy for that, for you spent much more time writing to us on the forum here than the time that should have taken to write a blurb on the book. This to me tells me that you either did not understand the book, or else you understood it and there is no outstanding or remarkable idea in the book. It's not the lack of time you can't write to us the idea inside the book; it's the lack of ideas inside the book or your inability (not proven, just saying) to get the idea.
Why did you undertake the onus of trying to sell this book? You are not a literary agent. Is it your father who had authored the book?
