Blazing hot afternoon here in Portlandia. I just ran across this essay on another blog and had to put up the link, because it's hilarious....and oh so true.
Publish and Perish
By ELIZABETH ROYTE
Published: October 23, 2005
"For any writer, the publication of a book, labored over for years, is an exciting event. But excitement is a fleeting emotion, and the business of publicizing the book, so that it sells and the author can earn out his advance, quickly displaces any initial euphoria. The writer then embarks on a tortured journey toward acceptance of the fact, several months after publication, that his book isn't going to vault him into the empyrean of fame, or even improve his life. At the intersection of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's stages of grief and Stendhal's stages of love, the contemporary author trudges along a predictable path that can only be described, in hindsight, as self-induced misery."
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