Editing with the experience and track record to create a best seller
TESTIMONIALS
The walk from the teachers’ room in the lower wing to the main office seemed long even with classes in session and the halls mostly empty. I hurried, not quite running, my heart beating hard. Tabby would have had to dress the kids in their boots and jackets to use the neighbors’ phone, and I could think of only two reasons she might have done so. Either one of our kids had fallen off the stoop and broken a leg, or I had sold Carrie.
My wife, sounding out of breath and deliriously happy, read me a telegram. Bill Thompson (who would later go on to discover a
Like every other new budding writer, John Grisham faced tremendous challenge when it came to engaging a suitable publisher. Many of the publishers, even “thirty-something” publishing houses and “thirty-something” editors rejected his application. Sending one application after another, John Grisham was rejected by 16 publishers before 1 agent finally signed a contract with him. That agent however, sent him on a wild goose chase by subsequently rejecting his manuscript again. Eventually, it took 1 editor to give him the exposure that he very much needed. It was none other than Bill Thompson from Wynwood Press, the same editor who discovered Stephen King. He helped John Grisham publish 5,000 copies of his novel and gave him a $15,000 advance.
Blog: The Episconixonian
Post: In Those Days, Editors Paid Peanuts
Link: http://episconixonian.blogspot.com/2012/01/in-those-days-editors-paid-peanuts.html
Famous Authors and Best Sellers Edited By Bill Thompson
Stephen King – Johns Grisham – Charles Berlitz – Peter Straub – Elmore Leonard – Richard Nixon – Maurice Stans –Senator Eugene McCarthy – Robert Silverberg – Gerald Browne – Tommy Lasorda – June Carter Cash – Erica Holzer – Walter Isaacson – Evan Hunter – James Farmer – John Taylor – John Hartford – Mason Williams - Mary Higgins Clark.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/video/web_extras/2010.htm?program=firsttuesday&pres=2971063&story=1GO TO VIDEO OF NEW PUBLISHED AUTHOR
