Breitbart: A 'Fact Checking Error'? Dystel & Goderich Ask Writers to Submit Their Own Bios

Breitbart.com ^ | 18 May 2012 | Steve Boman

[Fractal Trader]

Back in the mid-1990s, I lived in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. My wife was a medical student at the University of Chicago and I worked as a newspaper reporter.

I didn't know it, but also living in Hyde Park a few blocks away was a fellow just a couple years older than me named Barack Obama. At the time, he was a part-time lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, and I'm sure that at one time or another we crossed paths. I had no idea who he was, and unless he was a regular reader of the Chicago Daily Southtown, I'm pretty certain he had no idea who I was.

[SNIP]

I can speak of what she was like to work with and how she generated material. In my dealings with Dystel, I found her exceptionally thorough and very professional. She had a template she wanted non-fiction writers to follow, and my writing partner and I followed her template closely. She was rather fastidious, going so far as to mail a personal "Season's Greetings" card in December.

All material she used in our proposals came directly from me and my writing partner. She edited our rough-draft proposals and gave us feedback, but the final versions were all ours. Our final versions, bio included, were then simply photo-copied, by us, and distributed to potential publishers. This was back in the pre-Google days, recall.

I was asked to write the bio in the third person.

[CWSNTEXAS]

You know what “birthed” means douche bag. It’s what happens to birthed when it’s auto-corrected.

As for the rest of your post.......WOW!

[CWSNTEXAS]

SEE.....It did it again.....BIRTHER!!!!

[kalee]

placemarker

[Spaulding]

Ha. No, I hadn't heard the term before, but should have recognized the syndrome, as someone who, for the life of me, can't write “an”. It magically comes out “and”. Now, what is a “douche bag?”

[CWSNTEXAS]

You my friend. :-)