On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:25:32 -0500 Shalanna  writes:

> I place the word in quotation marks because I firmly believe that if 
> I'd 
> been born sooner and was submitting these books in the early 1960s 
> or even 
> 1970s, before the MTV generation came of age and got into control, 
> demanding ever-quicker paces, I would have been able to sell these 
> books at  the longer lengths.  

Likely.
But that was then.
This is now.
As you say (and sometimes it's a pisser, sometimes it's just the kick in
the pants you need -- though still a pisser):

> ....you have to bloom  where 
> you're planted, which means playing by the rules until you're a 
> brand name   and can do whatever.

> Ms.   Somberg agreed to let me send it.

that's promising!

> So that's where it stands.  I don't know whether to say, "Wish me 
> luck," or 
> not, because it might be like breaking a leg in the theater (we 
> don't wish 
> luck to actors, because it does the opposite), and also I always get 

So I shall say what we said in This Side of the Hill Players: "Have a
Burrito."

> all 
> excited and hepped up and then it all pans out to nothing, do you 
> hear,  nothing.  However, there's some potential in this one, I know.
> 
> I thought that was better than the usual batting average I have with 
> agents.  I truly believe that I'll come up with SOMETHING eventually 
> that'll sell.

your persistence is, sincerely, admirable....

=hugs=
and good, good thinkings....


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It is amazing how frequently we march off to battle without knowing what
the war is all about. --Harriet Goldhor Lerner; "The Dance of Anger"
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Of course, most of us secretly believe that we have the corner on the
"truth" and that this would be a much better world if everyone else
believed and reacted exactly as we do. --Harriet Goldhor Lerner; "The
Dance of Anger"

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