From: Natalie@yabbs
To: Cat@yabbs
Subject: re: SORRY!
Date: Wed May  4 14:02:50 1994
I scoff at the avant garde.  I think a lot of the stuff that gets 
published today, that is not 'genre' writing, is crapola.  I have the 
hardest time finding books when I go to the bookstore.  It's gotten to the 
point where I don'teven look for new authors anymore, I just look
for different books by authors I already have.  I should be able to find 
good writing without having to hunt for it.  The standards of the 
publishing industry need to be raised, methinks.  Look at Stephen King.  
He writes his books in the cab on the way to the publisher.  The quality 
of his stuff doesn't seem to be as good to me as it did 10 years ago.  And 
no one's going to sit him down and say, "Hey Steve, could you rewrtie 
this?"  Cause if they do, he can just take it to another publisher.  Sure, 
it'd be breaking his contract, but w/ the kind of monay he makes, he can 
afford it.  Publishers are more interested in making a dollar than they 
are in distributing quality literature.  I think that has to change.

natalie

(And I did like your poem...I was just making use of the sarcasm you like 
so much.....*grin*)