From: Ruth I. Gordon <druthgo>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 16:38:42 -0700

I have had a Wiley Miller "Non Sequitor" cartoon strip on a bulletin board since 1/30/01 (It's a old b.b.). Shows an important chap behind a B....I....G desk
(office with enormous window so you know he's important) Sign on door says "Big House Publishing" Important chap says to unimportant person of nonidentifiable gender who holds ms. in hand: "You didn't really expect to just waltz in here on talent alone and get a children's book published, did you?"

Theme stated in lower right hand corner of strip: "The literary sin of not being a Hollywood celebrity"

AND, another thought: I will not name the house(s) or the editor(s) who offered so much money to celebrity adult authors to create books for their lists--that one publisher, at least, died as a house--and the books were vulgar and ill written despite the fame of the author and the vulgarity of illustrations by famous artists.

TO: Miss Beatrix Potter

Sorry sweetie.....


Anyone remember that essay about Miss Potter (Jason Epstein???? It's in Only Connect, Egoff, ed.)

Big Grandma
Received on Tue 05 Jun 2007 06:38:42 PM CDT