Dear Mr. Jones: Thanks very much for letting me know about your web site, which I've bookmarked. It was especially instructive to see such an endlessly inventive and lively display of rejection letters. Mine had become rather stale and your site was a real wake-up call. You generally have to be a recognized academic or journalist to publish with Basic Books. We do no fiction (at least not intentionally). My own publishing has concentrated in science, economics, law, politics, and international relations. We accept unagented proposals now and then but the author's credentials have to be very good. With best wishes, Bill Frucht
Dear Bill: I wish everyone in the whole world was exactly like you--charming, candid, informative. Phew. Stevie Smith had a poem where she kept talking about a breath of fresh air. Thanks. G.
Dear Gerard: Thanks for your note. I like my comment just the way it is (and am flattered by your posted response). Best wishes, Bill Frucht
Dear Bill: Thanks. I've started an international good guy movement: "Why can't everyone be just like Bill Frucht?" It's already all the rage in Tibet. G.
September 29, 2008
Dear Gerard: I'm so self-satisfied about our little exchange on your site (under the Basic Books heading) that every so often I reread it just to assure myself that I really am that nice a guy. Thus it pains me to recommend that you take it down. Not only does it give some out of date information, but I am no longer in that job. I left and went to Yale University Press this summer. I hope you?re well. Best wishes, Bill Frucht
Oh, man, it's gonna pain me, too...my sole example of man's humanity to man, gone, gone, gone. Woe, oh woe. But, wait! I can transfer the gist to YUP. Yippee! Oh, oh, go listen to a few of the greatest chapters ever made in the history of all literature since the dawn of time when you have nothing better to do. It's free. Like me. Thanks. G.
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/ggcha.html
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