Editing Atlanta Nights (section)

== Background ==
PublishAmerica described itself as a "traditional publisher" and claimed to accept only high-quality [[manuscript]]s for publication. Its website further stated that the company received over 70 manuscripts a day and rejected most of them.

At one point, PublishAmerica posted articles on their AuthorsMarket website stating that, among other things:
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{{Cquote|quote=[S]cience-fiction and fantasy writers have it easier. It's unfair, but such is life. As a rule of thumb, the quality bar for sci-fi and fantasy is a lot lower than for all other fiction. Therefore, beware of published authors who are self-crowned writing experts. When they tell you what to do and not to do in getting your book published, always first ask them what genre they write. If it's sci-fi or fantasy, run. They have no clue about what it is to write real-life stories, and how to find them a home. Unless you are a sci-fi or fantasy author yourself.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.authorsmarket.net/experts.htm|title=Author's Market: Never Trust the "Experts"|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20031217113119/http://www.authorsmarket.net/experts.htm|archivedate=17 December 2003|accessdate=8 September 2009}}</ref>|source=Author's Market: ''Never Trust the "Experts"''}}

{{Cquote|quote=But, alas, the SciFi and Fantasy genres have also attracted some of the lesser gods, writers who erroneously believe that SciFi, because it is set in a distant future, does not require believable storylines, or that Fantasy, because it is set in conditions that have never existed, does not need believable every-day characters. Obviously, and fortunately, there are not too many of them, but the ones who are indeed not ashamed to be seen as literary parasites and plagiarists, are usually the loudest, just like the proverbial wheel that needs the most grease.<ref>{{cite web|title=Author's Market: Only Trust Your Own Eyes|url=http://www.authorsmarket.net/youreyes.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20031212115034/http://www.authorsmarket.net/youreyes.htm|archivedate=12 December 2003|accessdate=8 September 2009}}</ref>|source=Author's Market: ''Only Trust Your Own Eyes''}}