No Oastian heating. Bone hair sticks, long full skirts and a WWI jacket...
Today I did accounts, also sorted the remains of my mother's clothes and shoes into what might be feasibly wearable in the future. A skirt, some jumpers and a couple of shirts remained. Swathes of nicely made Italian 1970s boots and fancy shoes were culled along with a fur coat, a leather gilet and some 1960s Beeba clothes my mother had held on to
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Ain't no such thing. Thanks to the wonders of technology, anything is publishable: and if you can do the cover-art and get the editing done without cost, the budget is somewhere between small (Lulu, Lightning Source) and free (Amazon Kindle, Createspace).
Instead of rejection letters, future authors will just get silence.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-bransford/the-rejection-letter-of-t_b_607979.html
Possibly you have a novel that you don't consider fit to publish, but that is not the same thing.
Have a look at this 'blog
http://amandahocking.blogspot.com/2009/04/there-is-no-magic-hand.html
and tell me if you think this writer, based on what you read there, would ever be able to sell fiction?
If you do better than she did, your future will certainly be financially secure.
And even if you only sell to a few friends, surely that's better than leaving it un-read on your computer?
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