Why Your Fiction Manuscript Keeps Getting Ghosted by Publishers
When Misprinted Covers Killed a Launch
The phone rang at 6:47 AM. Sarah Chen's voice cracked on the other end. Five thousand copies of her debut novel sat in a Manchester warehouse with the wrong ISBN on the spine. Her launch party was in forty-eight hours. Waterstones had already flagged the error.
Their system rejected the entire shipment automatically. Sarah had spent six years writing this...