Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said that the press only consulted the British embassy in Athens about potential reprisals by nationalists, and did not contact the Greek government or any other Greek authorities who would have been more qualified to assess the risks from publishing the manuscript...
...added that the grounds for turning down the manuscript were not sufficient, even with the potential threat to employees
...AFTER READING THE MANUscript of a novel submitted by Joan Collins, Random House editor Joni Evans wrote a letter to the actress saying, among other things, "My biggest problems have to do with asking, 'Could this be real?'--and thinking it could not be." Problems? What problems? A steamy novel by a glamorous celebrity that read as if it were not "real"? Faced with such an object, many editors and publishers would have immediately ordered up a dust jacket and a print run of 200,000 copies...
...actress, by turning in work they deemed below the threshold of trashiness, had not lived up to her side of the deal. The publisher sued Collins for the return of her $1.3 million advance. The actress countersued, arguing that her sweetheart contract required her only to submit a "complete manuscript," not an "acceptable" one. Since she turned in two novels, A Ruling Passion and Hell Hath No Fury, as her contract stipulated, Random House owed her the rest of the $4 million...
...cabbage.'"), along with careful descriptions of her clothing. While grilling Evans, the actress's lawyer harked back, perhaps unintentionally, to a precept set forth in Aristotle's Poetics: "She turned in--however good, however bad--a story that had a beginning, a middle and an end, a completed manuscript?" After a pause, Evans said...