Word: starobin
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...Starobin is moving on from this loss, but still disillusioned with the big break that wasn’t and the lawsuit that went horribly wrong...
...about vampires who operate a car service in the suburbs of New Jersey, had languished “for about nine months” in Penguin Viking’s editorial offices. She originally sent it to a sympathetic Penguin editor she met at a Chicago book fair. This Starobin booster switched jobs before any Blood Eternal progress was made and her replacement had no interest in unagented horror from an unknown author. Starobin finally got her manuscript back and, disappointed yet still oddly determined, moved on to other projects...
That would have been the end of it if Starobin’s boyfriend, “an avid reader,” hadn’t read Stephen King’s Desperation and left it lying around their apartment waiting to be thrown away. Starobin picked it up and her spirits plummeted...
...Starobin says she knew it was time to take legal action after a low moment in a shopping mall. While signing for a credit card purchase, the salesperson told that her handwriting looked as messy as a doctor’s. Starobin explained that she was a doctor, a doctor of literature, and also an author. The amiable clerk asked if any of her work was published, which led to a discussion of King’s pilfering of her vampire plot...
...realized I was telling the story to a complete stranger in a shopping mall and that I hadn’t gotten over it,” she says. Legal help was “prohibitively expensive” so Starobin represented herself...