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...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...
Phillips began writing the manuscript for White Rabbit less than two years after her 1988 graduation from Dartmouth College. She says she has always been interested in writing, but did not write fiction during her college years, with the exception of a few short stories that she self-deprecatingly describes as "crappy...
...fond of her characters. Phillips' love for Ruth and her dopey but sweet husband Henry comes through in the book, and gives the reader a special insight and affection for the characters. Phillips also points out that her fondness for her characters helped her return to and rework the manuscript in the years between its first draft and its publication. Even now, it is clear that Phillips takes an active interest in how people respond to her characters and interpret their actions...
...refers to suggestions former President Derek L. Bok made in some of his open letters in the 1970s. Has there not been any progress since then? Were there no other options or ideas Rudenstine could offer us? We appreciate the thoughtfulness, but we wish that Rudenstine had sent this manuscript to the Harvard University Press and given us something more timely...
These are curious charges in view of the fact that neither of the two readers paid by the University of North Carolina Press to evaluate my manuscript for publication found such egregious classes of error as did Koyanis. Both readers strongly urged publication, made detailed suggestions for expanding the introduction and pointed out some typos and mistranscriptions in the working draft that hey scrutinized...