Wednesday, October 12, 2011
You Can't Keep A Crazy Mo-Fo Down
Posted on 6:08 AM by humpty
One thing I do pretty well, surly and happy mice, is bounce back. I'm already working a new angle on the new non-fiction book proposal and making traction with a new agent. Your loss, Agent 99, and the 98 who came before! (Actually, when I put it that way, I see something effed-up about my formula.) It's just not that personal. I once had lunch with this editor who'd passed up an insanely successful, pulitzer-prize-winning literary book. I asked her if she regretted letting the opportunity pass, and she said. "Naw, I just didn't like it that much!" I did hear the faint sound of "ka-ching, ka-ching" ringing somewhere behind her dead eyes, but she did seem to believe her own b.s. Whatever. They have their own formulas for success and they are working in a dying business, or so everyone says. It does occur to me that maybe after a while you stop feeling the blows so acutely when you are being pummeled. Not sure. But, anyway, onward! as Howard Junker would say. Let's not let anything hold us back now.
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