More on the Meaning of Life

Of course, it seemed even clearer back then, didn't it?

At last, the Meaning of Life revealed!

Wiley Miller's Non Sequitur is one of my favorite comic strips. Like Bill Watterston and Berke Breathed before him, he has a way of looking at things and cutting right through the BS -- with a sense of humor, too!

Today's strip is a fine example:

Finally made it!

I am now an officially rejected author.

Back in May, I pitched my middle-reader ghost story/hidden treasure story Haunted Hacienda to Anna Webman of Curtis Brown.

Just yesterday, Ms Webman told me in a nice letter that she needs to love something to represent it, but that she "couldn't quite find the connection" that she would have hoped for in my manuscript.

She just couldn't find the love...

Ah, well. She was too young for me, anyway.

I'm off now in search of a list of agents, among whom there must be one in whom I can engender at least a spark of like, if not love.

Suggestions welcome.

Civil Discourse

Photo courtesy DemoOkie, who didn't say where he got it: