Yep it is exactly the same for literature as well...I just got another no thanks letter for my 1St book (400+ pages of fantasy adventure) and it was accompanied by a letter lamenting just these issues - these days it is a big risk to publish anything by unknown authors, ebooks etc. Are eating away readership and for an unknown author, the novel would have to be truly exceptional to warrant publication these days.
Well, Im gonna try and finish my second novel (scifi this time) in the next few months anyway...hopefully I can make that "exceptional", Lol...
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