[bksvol-discuss] Re: Book being submitted

Hi, I hope the negotiator can do something so the smell of his clients
doesn't make him faint. Sounds like an interesting novel, though am not
sure if I'm interested much in Hollywood glitz. Regards, Kim Friedman.

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I have just submitted a book that I scanned some time ago, but didn't 
get around to cleaning up for submission. This book is:

Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi.

The synopsis from the back cover is:

    The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin
    humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem:
    They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. So getting
    humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can
    help them close the deal. Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something
    about closing deals. He's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents.
    But although Stein may have just concluded the biggest deal of his
    career, it's quite another thing to negotiate for an entire alien
    race. To earn his percentage this time, he's going to need all the
    smarts, skills, and wits he can muster.

Since I read the whole thing so I can add. I guess this is science 
fiction but the technology of the aliens is like Arthur C. Clarke's law 
"sufficiently advanced it looks like magic." So, I think it lies pretty 
close to the boundary where you fall over into fantasy. But beyond that,

if you are interested in the inside workings of the TV and film 
industry, in Hollywood personalities and all that glitz, this is as much

a book about that area of American life as it is science fiction (though

with almost none of the adult content part even though the bookshare 
converter gave it an adult content rating).

I have stripped the headers (yuck, they were terrible, almost every page

scanned differently, formated chapter headings and did a spelling check.

I also read the whole book. I didn't really intend to but I noticed that

the publishers not only used a weird font that didn't OCR well for the 
first word of every chapter, but every time there was a change of scene 
instead of just using a blank line like everyone else, they used that 
same non OCR font. Since there was no blank line, the only way to find 
these garbled words was to use the spelling check which is tedious, or 
read the whole book, which does take a while, but since I enjoyed the 
book it at least wasn't tedious fixing it that way.

Oh, yes, I forgot to mention. I liked this book. It is John Scalzi's 
first novel, and he is doing much better now, but it is definitely an 
enjoyable first novel (even though none of the technology or biology is 
explained--described at great length, but not explained).

Misha
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