![]() ![]() I’ve read the quickly turned-around and recycled babble of Harlequin authors. Subsequently, the romance novel featuring a quirky girl in bumblebee tights and a wheelchair-bound boy with hair that’s too long sold over six-million copies in countless countries and ended up in Hollywood as a film starring two impossibly good looking actors. But when she brought Me Before You to her longstanding publishing house, they passed, and so she moved along and sold the book elsewhere. Previously a journalist of more than a decade, she decided that full-time novel writing was her future. ![]() Jojo Moyes wrote Me Before You in 2012, after a multitude of other novels that garnered reasonably good numbers and critical acclaim, as well as a few awards. Do they have regrets? Is it just a drop in the bucket? Does it even bother them at all, considering how many novels are pushed out each year by countless houses? Does someone get fired? Yelled at? It intrigues me. Sometimes I wonder how publishing houses feel when they give a hard pass to a book and it ends up becoming a national bestseller. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other. ![]()
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