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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.}