When the first "Harry Potter" novel was published, the publisher asked her to use initials rather than her first name. This was because boys would be biased against a book written by a woman.

第一部哈里波特小说出版时，发行商建议她用缩写的大写字母代替她的名字，因为考虑到小男孩看见作家是女作家时，可能会有些歧视。

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The publisher asked me to get her to sign an agreement to write only for his magazine.

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Specifically, the publisher asked us not to introduce ourselves to an event Transformers: The Fall of Cybertron , which we were invited next week, we cannot cover it as planned.

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Ironically, the area in which it is most appropriate is the one where the publisher asked me to delete the chapter, because it would have to be so long on government complexity.

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The publisher immediately asked for more.

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