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NOK-NOK MAY BE OPPORTUNITY KNOCKING. READ ON.
DEAR READER,
Do you have the itch to write ? Have you ever sent a
manuscript to "The Slush Pile" in New York ? Have you ever
waited weeks and weeks, hoping that your manuscript would be
accepted ... only to have it rejected by some faceless nobody
for reasons they didn't even bother to explain. {Form-letter
rejection slips don't count.} If you have ever opened the
tattered box containing your precious (rejected) manuscript,
only to find it ruined with coffee-stains and smudged pizza
sauce, then I know exactly how you feel.
About five hundred years ago ... give or take a century or
two, cowled monks labored in dimly lit monastic cells copying
texts by hand. As they felt that their time was too precious to
be wasted on just anything, it was the monks who decided what
would be copied and what would not. Then a goldsmith named
Gutenberg cast the first moveable type and, using an old wine
press, invented the first printing machine. Now, hundreds of
books could be printed in less time than a copyist could
{PRESS SPACEBAR TO GO ON.}