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22/9/07 13:03It's been a week since I saw her and said "This is a perfectly acceptable car at a perfectly acceptable price, and this is the fourth dealership I've been to." Which is not romantic, but it's how things work out sometimes. Of course, immediately after driving her home I saw a hippie-psychedelic-painted VW bus for sale, but I think it's better for everyone involved that I wasn't tempted by that.
Her name is Squidmobile, because immediately after I picked her up, I drove over to Quail Ridge and Jon Scieszka signed "Squids Will Be Squids" for me. He's a cool guy. He reports getting, not just rejections, but awful rejections for "The Stinky Cheese Man," things like "Please do not send us anything ever again." Which is a story that I've heard often enough for $Famous Book Title Here, but I kind of waver between being surprised and not-surprised; I believe that publishers get things right an almost astonishing amount of the time (or I wouldn't be able to keep writing). When you see a self-published book, most of the time, you can see why none of the real publishers would take it. But while I don't really believe there are a lot of Misunderstood Geniuses running around, I can see why a book like "Stinky Cheese Man" would be off-the-wall-brilliant in such a way that its brilliance was not immediately apparent.
Her name is Squidmobile, because immediately after I picked her up, I drove over to Quail Ridge and Jon Scieszka signed "Squids Will Be Squids" for me. He's a cool guy. He reports getting, not just rejections, but awful rejections for "The Stinky Cheese Man," things like "Please do not send us anything ever again." Which is a story that I've heard often enough for $Famous Book Title Here, but I kind of waver between being surprised and not-surprised; I believe that publishers get things right an almost astonishing amount of the time (or I wouldn't be able to keep writing). When you see a self-published book, most of the time, you can see why none of the real publishers would take it. But while I don't really believe there are a lot of Misunderstood Geniuses running around, I can see why a book like "Stinky Cheese Man" would be off-the-wall-brilliant in such a way that its brilliance was not immediately apparent.