January 6-7, 2010:

I wrote about the two rejections I just received on FaceBook which occasioned much tearing of hair, renting of clothes, as my fans and "friends" remarked about how awful it was that a Personage Of My Account should still get rejected. And what underlay the over-reaction (a thought that only a few actual spoke outloud) was the destruction of a myth. The myth that says that once one gets reasonably well-known in the field, all is smooth sailing ever after. Which meant, of course, that they...