Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for July 29, 2021

You mean the employees that work at…..Best Buy?

Better not take it to any critics at Hooters. They may laugh you out of the place.

Publishing editors will reject your book with withering comments!

Until they don’t when one gives you a chance!

Then they will look like the total fools that they are!

Why is he in a building and not in the trees?

Can’t have one without the other..

And Cosmo recognizes the reality of all writers….

Let me introduce you to my literary agent. She won’t get your book published any faster or get you a better deal with a publisher, but at least you’ll have someone to blame.

Writing the book is absolutely the easiest part of the process. Which should give you some idea. :)

Done, Cosmo? Are you SURE? No rewrites? Nothing needs to be tweaked? Sounds like a false sense of security.

With his luck, he’ll probably get Circuit Citizens.

I’ve never worried about my novels being million-sellers. I’d be over the moon if they sold a thousand.

You only need to sell them. No one needs to read them.