Says it all really

[panik]

To illustrate the vale of tears you enter when you try to get anything published these days, one David Lassman sent the first chapters of some of Jane Austen's works to literary agents and publishers. Not only did they not want to publish them - in all fairness, the 200 year-old style might have put more than a few off - only one recognised the plagarism.

This does not fill one with confidence - but then I've been at this game for years and I know what it's like; I could fit a new novel on the backs of the rejections I've had - just got a bright shiny new one this morning!

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[t-verano.livejournal.com]

Silly -- stupid -- people. (I can understand the style thing, I suppose -- but how the heck can literary people not recognize Jane Austen? ::weeps::)

And so sorry about the rejection! (Silly -- stupid -- people.)

And hoping the tonsillitis is retreating gracefully and at speed.

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Oh... rejection is the mainstay of my literary life (o: I'm just prepping a submission for a new agent now, as a matter of fact. The last rejection came back signed 'intern 2'. ::sigh::

The thing about that story isn't that the chapters got rejected, but that ONLY ONE realised what he was reading! ::despairs::

The tonsillitis has dejenerated into a miserable cough and cold. But I has tea. I is OK(ish) (o: