> Pay attention, corkbrain: I judge books every day from partials and
> samples. So does every other editor in the business. You can't make a
> good book out of bad writing, and your writing is bad. And if the
> structure, pacing, storytelling, and ideation in your sample are
> representative of the rest of the work, hiring a professional to
rewrite
> your prose from start to finish still wouldn't make it a good book.