If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
From Piers Anthony
Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.
Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.
At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.
Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.
I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.
3 perspectives
2 perspectives
1 perspectives