Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.
It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.