My notes to this article read “LOL, fairly rude/graphic, and all true”. I’m a huge believer in a dose of realism every so often, so here it is: http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/01/10/why-your-novel-wont-get-published/
Here’s a bit:
Brutal honesty time:
That novel of yours isn’t likely to get published. The numbers just aren’t in your favor. Last I did a sweep of the Internet, it was home to 500,000,000 writers. Once you remove the wanna-be dilettantes, you still end up with 1,000,000 left. And they’re all fighting to have their manuscripts published.
And one more picture of Ana in a basket:
He is funny, slightly dirty, funny, man.
Ann: slightly???!!
I just finished reading Crewel Lye by Piers Anthony, and in his Authors Note at the end of the book (from 1984!) he has said basically what you do about getting published…..
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uqK1y0ORi1Tq7m1CoFKkXIpUxOg4OquI3X-3F4drOfs/edit?hl=en_US
Seems like it’s not a new problem!
Stu