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		<title>Frustrated and ready to give up?</title>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Frustrated and ready to give up?  Perhaps that&#8217;s why you&#8217;re here.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Already you&#8217;ve spent months, perhaps years, on your manuscript.  Finally, time for publication!  What fun!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But the agents you&#8217;ve approached were lukewarm at best.  One rejection follows another and you&#8217;re not quite sure why.  Is it the market?  Is it your writing?  Is your topic unmarketable?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You decide to stick with your day job.  Who has time to chase from agent to agent and publisher to publisher?  It almost seems sinful, spending time on a fruitless endeavor when you could be helping people at your day job.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I know.  I&#8217;ve been there.  Sure there are young authors willing to play the game.  There&#8217;s nothing wrong with traditional publishing &#8211; in fact, it&#8217;s great!  I have a wonderful editor, a first-rate publisher, a great publicist, and a like-minded agent who&#8217;s become a dear friend.  Why, then, did I establish a new publishing venue aimed at the health professional?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As a fellow primary care physician I know how busy you are.  And your job <span style="text-decoration: underline;">is</span> important (perhaps more important than your beloved manuscript).  Your time, especially, is valuable.  No doubt the hours spent on your manuscript could buy you a trip around the world, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">if</span> you&#8217;d been paid for them.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But still, you&#8217;d like to get the word out, have your voice heard beyond the confines of your medical office. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>And that&#8217;s why we&#8217;re here.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We have nothing against traditional publishing.  In fact, we&#8217;ll help you find a traditional publisher if your work is marketable to the mainstream publishing industry.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And we are not a vanity press.  We won&#8217;t ask you to pay to publish your work. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But neither are we looking to publish schlock nor works that cannot be sold. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If your manuscript is in terrible shape and needs significant work, we&#8217;ll tell you so.  If the timing of your topic is out of sync with the publishing world, we&#8217;ll explain that as well.  If you have a <a class="zem_slink" title="Niche market" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niche_market">niche product</a> that appeals to only a small audience, we&#8217;ll help you work in that direction.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Working with you, to achieve your goals, is our aim.  That may be different from author to author.  Maybe you just want to reach patients with a particular problem. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Whatever your goal may be, we&#8217;ll work with you to achieve an innovative solution.  You&#8217;ll be involved every step of the way.  Visit our <strong><a href="http://mdbooksusa.com/?page_id=143" target="_self">Publishing Options</a></strong> page to learn about the exciting  possibilities.</p>
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