Agreed Neilmarr. If you don't have a spirit of perseverance and a thick skin, you'll wither and die as an author. My way of approaching the trials and travails of getting published is to apply the more lasse-faire approach. IE, I'm doing what I love and would be thrilled to get published, but if I don't, then I'll be alright with that. I won't let rejections crush me. I'll just keep working and getting better while doing something I love and eventually I will get picked up by a big house, or published by someone important. For now it's small house PTP, but in time it might be big house publishing.
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