Religion

The professor who had written the book (Business Ethics) had larded it with scripture. I did the best I could to weed all that out and explained to him that no non-religious publisher would touch his book unless he got rid of all the Jesus stuff. He didn't believe me; I got a friend of mine at a major NY publisher to write him a letter supporting what I'd told him, and he still refused to believe that, say, Harper Collins wouldn't want to publish him. He had a sort of tunnel vision, I think, believing that his beliefs were the norm and would not interfere at all with attracting readers, including universities he hoped would add his book to their curricula.

I gave up, but not before getting paid my usual hourly rate. He bought my contact lenses and a new roof for the garage.