RE: how to get published - fact
Sean Draine (seandr@Exchange.Microsoft.com)
Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:01:41 -0700
> Robert Pirsig was turned down 121 times before Zen And The Art Of
> Motorcycle Maintenance was reluctantly picked up by a small editor.
> Yes, and John Kennedy Toole KILLED HIMSELF because of the depression he
> suffered after A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES was rejected by nearly everyone.
Thank you, Tim and HotbunsTwoHundred. These stories are the perfect antidote
to the smug, self-promoting 'advice' that one of our published bananafishers
has condescended to give. Whatever it was that he published, it surely must
be far superior in quality to either of these rejects.