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April 10, 2008, 1:12 pm PDT
Great point!
Quote From: alpha12That quote really bothered me too. The reason Dr Phil and his family have so many best-sellers published is because publishers know anything the McGraw family writes will sell, and sell big. It is not at all like sending out query after query and getting rejection after rejection. Normal people are really lucky to get published, even if whatever they write is really good. He should have used JK Rowling as an example because she started out anonymous.
Anyway, I think the writer is deluding himself to believe publishing will be easy. It will be a long, hard road and likely one full of rejection. It is not something he should be giving up his day job for. Self-publishing is hardly the way to go either, considering he will have to spend a fortune promoting himself before people buy the book. I agree with you alpha12, JK Rowling would have been a great example. The gentleman on the show is deluding himself, as you said, and Dr. Phil was correct in telling him it would be difficult, but things haven't been "difficult" for Dr. Phil for a long time, at least where publishing is concerned. People like Dr. Phil work extremely hard to get where they are and the success shows for itself. That being said, the bragging and self-promotion should drop by the wayside. It's too bad it ever needed to exist at all.
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