Roen: Pronounced Rowan - it's over . . .

I just posted the last two chapters of my novel online--check the above links if you want to look at it. It's in Notes on my Facebook page, and in the blogs of the other two. I'd be interested to hear what you think.

That will be my last work of prose fiction, I believe. I thought I'd given up on it before--now I truly have. I'm not disappointed in the novel in itself, really, but in my inability to get an editor at a publishing company anywhere to even look at it. Over the past few years it has gone from extremely difficult to impossible for an unpublished writer to get his or her work even considered.

Maybe my novel isn't publishable. Or maybe it's one of the greatest things ever written. More reasonably it's somewhere in between--I basically wrote it as a way for a reader to kill some time on the train or at the beach or whatever. But it doesn't matter, because nobody will ever read it.

So, this is *your* chance. Doesn't get more democratic than this. Look it over. Let me know what you think.

And the publishing industry can just go to hell.