That Most Dangerous Of Opponents: The One

If Every Editor Turns You Down, Maybe You Should Take A Second Look At Your Text, However, Just In Case.

Keep Writing, Because Not Only Does Practice Improve Skill, It Gives You More Chances To Score On The Market. I Did That For Eight Years Before Making My First Sale.

As For Collaboration - I Have Done A Lot, 26 Books, And Found Publishers Increasingly Resistive To Them. It's Not That The Books Are Bad; Editors Won't Even Read Them.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker Series Also Shows The Potential Of Lighter Fantastic Fiction. I Read The First, And Listened To A Tape Of A Later One, And It's Fun.

I Hope To Read A Harry Potter Novel Soon, To See What It's All About. I Admit To Being Annoyed That Many Good Light Fantasy Writers Have Had Trouble Getting Published, In England And Elsewhere, When It Is Obvious The Readers Were Waiting For Us All Along.