Lords save me from this nonsense.
Many don't know this, but I never went to art school. Much to my misery, I actually ended up in business school (long story). Though not a very good one.
One of things I was most looking forward to upon graduating was pursuing art and design full time and never having to look at anything even remotely close to a ledger ever again.
How naive.
In other news, I keep coming up against hurdles in regard to finding an appropriate publication pathway for the collected edition of THE SOLAR GRID. While almost every editor I send it to does make it a point to acknowledge the book's merits; “a project of immense passion”, “unique”, “graphically sophisticated”, it still gets turned down for one reason or another:
- “Not mainstream enough”, according to one well-positioned agent.
- “Not interested in anything dystopian anymore” said the much-respected editor at a major publishing house.
- “Too big” according to another major publisher.
- “Not quite for us”.
And then there are the few odd correspondences where a publisher would express initial interest and then ghost you. I realize of course that rejection stories aren't cool to divulge unless you have a success story to go with (at which point, rejection stories become extra extra cool), but I don't think of this blog as a space to project any kind of awfully considered persona. I like to say it like it is, likely to my own detriment.
Two more days till I'm off to Dresden and there is just so much to do that I'd rather not have to do.