Poor poor pitiful me

I just read most of an online article by an author who finally got her book published after 8 years of shopping it around. The book is about "a romantic, sexual relationship between 15-year-old Stew and 40-year-old David" and "was intertwined with the story of a lesbian lawyer, her lover, and her legal partner." She complains that she "had published seven novels and two nonfiction books between 1984 and 1998 with excited, positive reviews, translations, awards, and all the signs of success. But suddenly I could not get anyone to take this book"

Gee, I wonder why no one was interested in publishing this book? It seems like just the thing the publishing arm of NAMBLA (the North American Man/Boy Love Association -- or something like that) would want first rights to. Then she starts into a lengthy whine about how the conservative movement has stifled the lesbian literary community to the point where no one wants to write lesbian fiction in this country. And now that she's finally published her book, it's getting ecstatic reviews -- from the alternative lifestyle press -- main stream media doesn't acknowledge the existence of her book at all.

So now this author, starts complaining how no one respects lesbian authors and fiction -- and I'm having flashbacks to Ellen Degeneres complaining how no one was watching her sitcom now that it was by a lesbian and had lesbian comedy in it. She claims it's all due to the "myth of merit based publishing".

Maybe it's because most Americans don't think your book is very good -- have you ever considered that???