Cover Story: Susan Isaacs: The Insider Interview
The bestselling author talks candidly about changes in the industry, and how she thinks publishers and authors can better work together.
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This contact introduced Isaacs to her first agent, "a wonderful woman named Gloria Safier," who told her, "I really like this book. Go home to your typewriter where you belong and I'll sell it." Although Isaacs did not learn the next part of the story until much later, the book was turned down by a number of houses citing reasons along the lines of: "Not even Long Island housewives want to read about Long Island housewives." How wrong they were!
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