Re: how to get published - fact
Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Mon, 04 Oct 1999 18:54:57 -0400
Camille said:
> Yes ... but you have to be careful of the Tortured Artist syndrome (and let
> me also add I'm part of the publish-me rat race just like anyone else),
> which goes something like this: `I have worked on this MS for five years. I
> have revised it ten times. I have been rejected by twenty publishers.
> Therefore I am a talented, undiscovered genius'.
If anyone out there should happen upon a very uncommon book called
"MacDoodle Street," by Mark Alan Stamaty, you'll be delighted to find
a character, "Gustave Ranto, the bitter, unrecognized genius" who is an
artist but spends his days in a coffeehouse becoming so fuelled on
caffeine, he has hilarious visions. And he's enraged by some guy who
comes on the scene: ArtMan, who is immediately taken up as the hot new
artist, while Gustave has to do things like design cereal boxes to earn
a living.
It's one of the funniest little books I have -- and, in fact, if anyone
should happen to run across a copy, mail me privately. I would pounce
on *anything* by Mark, pre-"Washingtoon." (Not that I don't like
"Washingtoon"; only that I have multiple copies of all his later books.)
--tim