[getting published] it’s not what you write – it’s whom you know

I stumbled onto Phil Edwards' comment on Chris Dillow’s post and it was thought-provoking: People often don't realise that getting an individual piece of work accepted has very little to do with the quality of said piece of work. (I know I had no idea that this was the case when I first started pitching stuff - come to that, if somebody had told me it was the case I would have been outraged and refused to believe it.) Having sat on both sides of the desk … What Phil said is here.