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> on 5/27/06 6:09 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Blatant revisionism, or just Really Bad Reporting?
<snip>
> >
> > http://www.sundayherald.com/55707
> >
> > "Chopra showed similar persistence with his writing career.
> > Nobody would publish his first book, Quantum Healing, so
> > he did it himself and hawked it around bookshops until a
> > publishing agent picked up on it.
> A talented team of Purusha publicists got his first books on the
> best seller lists.
And "Quantum Healing" wasn't his first book, it was his
third, after one he self-published (can't recall the
title) and "Return of the Rishi."
You can't "hawk around" a book to bookstores unless it's
actually been typeset and bound. It is possible to get
a self-published book on the shelves that way, and for a
publisher to pick it up if it sells well.
Chopra might well have done this with his first book, but
to the best of my knowledge it was never picked up by a
publisher; and "Return of the Rishi" (again to the best
of my knowledge) never went through the self-publishing
stage. "Return of the Rishi," which was published by
Houghton Mifflin, sold well, and obviously by the time
he wrote "Quantum Healing" he was well enough known that
he would have sold the ms. directly to the publisher.
So that passage from the article makes no sense at all.
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