It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
“Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.”
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”