I’m excited about getting published and excited about my beautiful new two-inch satin-finish hexagonal floor tiles, and I guess that’s adulthood. Actually, I have found that since my adolescence, people have occasionally teased me about how excited I tend to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My first non-self-published publication, that is. You can validate my existence right here!
Yes, I got four rejection slips recently. I’m ramping up the submissions, so you may see more of these in future. I’ve gamified the process by determining to get as many rejections as I possibly can.
“Your excerpt was not chosen.” Nice use of the passive voice, assholes.
I’ll make them all pay! To come to my standing-room-only readings when I’m a famous writer!
Some days feeding your hope is hard. Some days you just go through the motions. That’s OK. Hope is like a goldfish: it’s always hungry, but it can go a surprisingly long time without food.
It seems stick figures have no blood. Though they do have bones.
We haven’t had a proper one of these in over a decade! I’ve got to seek out rejection more often. For those of you who might not remember, “Tales of the Expected” is the series of comics I draw when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For those of you who weren’t here like seven thousand years ago the last time this came up, “Tales of the Expected” is a series of comics about my work being rejected by various publishers. It’s tough in this case[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kafka, of course, never had to worry about agents or anything like that, because he took the easy way and dropped dead having hardly published anything, leaving Max Brod to do all the heavy lifting—quite literally, by smuggling his dead[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Click to buy my illustrated version of the book of Jonah! I’m super proud of it.