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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 3651364, member: 153"] Oh so much of this is so true. For 5 years I was one of 5 judges for a $100k fiction prize, and the novels were all not yet released. Inevitably, each year, the books would arrive and I'd see half of them would have the exact same theme. Religious novels one year. Trailer park novels another year. I'd sometimes get rejections that would read, "Caribbean novels are really popular this year..." Wish I'd known 3 years ago when I started this! I have a friend whose first novel was fought over during a span of 2 days after mailing by editors at 6 different major houses, only to see all 6 houses reject the novel after the marketing team nixed it (marketers have more power than editors). She ended up publishing the book with a smaller house, McSweeney's. I'm always amused at these stories. [/QUOTE]