I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

