And an Encouraging Note on the Food for Thought Post Below

From today's Publisher's Marketplace "Publisher's Lunch":

"The Guardian adds more on the UK's new fiction bestseller Kate Long, author of THE BAD MOTHER'S HANDBOOK. They note that, 'Her success has been portrayed as "northern lass hits literary jackpot overnight," but that ignores the fact that she has been writing for 10 years - short stories and an unpublished novel.' Her second book SKY MESSAGES is already written."

See? Every time you hear that someone had lottery-like overnight success, and feel terrible about it, if you dig into the reality, you'll find that they have been working hard too. A little writing every day for ten years. That's what wins the race.