I never submitted anything to him, I don't think I ever met him, but he was a major influence in the publishing world - for all the best reasons. Patrick Nielsen Hayden put it in a nutshell for me on Making Light:
"I didn’t know Jim at all well, and we had many differences of taste and outlook, but he was a publishing genius, radically correct about many of the things that matter. Trust your readers. Your audience is your most effective sales force. Publish what you love."
