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When our children were younger, and still in High School, who moved from home. The new location was further from the school and told us that there could be financial assistance available to us for the cost of the fees for our children new bus, which, of course, be more expensive. They sent us a letter. He said the money was to care for people living "eight miles away and more. We measure the trip in the car and certainly looked ready that distance. Weeks later we got another letter. Our request was denied. We "did not live 8 miles away." No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, according to his calculations, lived 7.9 miles away. That's seven of nine points. It is not enough, they said. After all, there must be a cutoff.

Aspiring authors keep coming with the problem itself. They send their work to traditional publishers, and immediately encounter problems. To say that I have written a novel in the horror genre. Oh, the publisher says, which is used in a variety of popular genres and we publish science fiction and fantasy, for example. But no, no, Horror. After all, they say, it should be a limit somewhere. Or suppose you've written a spy novel. We do not publish the novels of espionage, which say. But, you say, consulting editor current catalog, which will publish two spy novels this month and was actually published three last month. Ah, is in According to the editorial, but we decided that we have enough spy novels published this year and so we're going to stop this month. After all, there must be a limit somewhere.

A more serious problem concerns money. You read a newspaper editorial that just paid a fortune for an author famous for his new thriller. Ohoh what you think. This editor likes thrillers and is willing to pay large advances. Nothing so simple! When you send in your manuscript, you are given very little attention. After all, the publisher says, we've spent our budget for this year, (you know who). We had to cut all progress until next April to beginning of the new financial year. Sorry.

Internet Authors do not have this problem. They know they can go to a site like Lulu and get their books published is "No matter how many, what kind you have chosen, and what time of year (or day or night, come to that). They know that the service is excellent and you can order copies in small or large numbers, as desired. In fact, there are no limitations at all. No cuts.

Because, you know, we are not robots. They have to live in a world where good things are cut at some point chosen arbitrarily. A few weeks ago I went to a self-service restaurant one evening, in the hope a quick meal. I patiently in line at the counter, but when I reached the head of the queue, the man behind the counter pointed out a sign and said: "We leave serving at 9. It was a minute past the allotted time. He insisted that he was right, but then another chapter out of the kitchen, tray in the hand. "Serve" he said. "I have not begun to put things away yet. All the food is still out. "True, it was. It was not a problem for me to be served, no additional effort. Just wanted to say to break the rule that says there is an absolute and unequivocal court. The second guy was not so fixed their opinions, and was willing to be flexible. I had had enough. That was important to me.

What is important hide-bound and inflexible bureaucrats (As used in more traditional publishing houses) is that the rules are caught, respected and never questioned, (even when it is random and changes). Why? In the first instance, because 8 miles was the limit and that was it. Why? Why not 9 or 10? If someone finds many people living outside this limit and draw the map accordingly? Nothing so sophisticated! Had anyone thought to check if the bus fare for a journey of 7.5 miles was any less expensive than Travel 8.5 miles? Not at all. The problem is that when people design these "rules" that make them look like so scientific "without no science "and usually just lines of demarcation based on pure prejudice and blind faith. The usual reason for these rules are important, is that we says, if they are broken "and then, my God, the walls are crumbling, culture and civilization will collapse disappear (or worse). Could it be? Had anyone checked how many applications had come from people living in 7.5 miles or 7.3 miles? After all, if we bent the rules and go left "to 7.9" well, they could say that can flood with all those other people within a decimal point or two short, maybe not? Well, no only if these people exist, and nobody could tell me that. They had no record of how many people had been rejected, or how close they were to that magic number 8.

The saddest fact in the history of the school is that the budget for bus fares assisted was expended by the end of the year, and the school had to send a brochure round all parents, inviting them to apply again. That's what you get for "sticking to the" rules "do not get the results you want! You do not get to help people who want to help and not get to spend the money you have available. The alternative? To grow and realize that the "cut-off point is drawn in an office by a bald man with glasses and a pencil. He is not divine, not a superhuman genius, and its decisions can be challenged or circumvented without destroying the carefully designed system. That's not anarchy, it is simply common sense.

About the Author

Mike Scantlebury is a parent. He is also an Internet Author, with novels, stories and self-help material to his credit. Writing from the heart of Manchester, England, where football is king and music has been made, he sends his work out to a range of web sites. Try http://www.mikescantlebury.com

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