Re: how to get published

AntiUtopia@aol.com
Fri, 24 Sep 1999 21:49:10 -0400 (EDT) 

In a message dated 9/24/99 6:58:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rbowman@indigo.ie writes:

<<   I simply 
     find it difficult to believe that what you would 
     presumably call a REAL writer can easily put his name 
     to conscious crap.
 
     And I STILL think that if I'd been turned down by 
     38 - thirty eight - agents I'd be less than wholly confident 
     about the value - or at least the marketability - of my offerings.
 
     Scottie B.
      >>

Ah, come on.  You don't have to be a Hemingway or a Fitzgerald to be a REAL 
writer :).  And they wrote their share of crap....the publishing process 
itself has dressed them up and set them out quite nicely for us.  

Elie Wiesel had far more than 38 rejections for "Night." 

Jim