Friday, June 30, 2006
Take That!
Here's an unusual service, though a similar thought may have occurred to those of us accustomed to dealing with rejection letters. Lulu.com (a subsidy publisher) is offering something new: for $90, you can turn your rejection letters into... toilet paper!
Here's how Lulu introduces the service:
Perhaps it's an idea whose time has come. Certainly I tell many of my clients and writing students that chances are good they'll accumulate enough rejection slips to paper at least one room of their houses; but certainly that's a depressing choice for wallpaper. Why not another kind of paper altogether?
Lulu goes on to say, "This groundbreaking new Lulu service recalls the remark attributed to (among others) the great Sir Winston Churchill, who is said to have written in reply to an unwelcome letter: Dear Sir, I am in the smallest room of the house. I have your letter before me. Soon it will be behind me."
Anyone want to try it out? Have the frustration level it takes to spend "from $90" to put it all behind you? Then go to Lulu's fabulous toilet paper offer -- and then come back and tell us all about it!
That will take you well... beyond the elements of style!
Jeannette Cézanne
Customline.com
Here's how Lulu introduces the service:
"JK Rowling, Agatha Christie, Hunter S. Thompson, James Joyce and George Orwell all received their share of publishers' rejection letters. Stephen King got so many that he used to nail them on a spike under a timber in his bedroom. Margaret Mitchell got rejection letters from 38 different publishers before finally finding one to publish her novel, Gone With The Wind. William Saroyan may now be rated a literary great, but he amassed a stack of rejection slips 30 inches high -- some seven thousand -- before he sold his first story."
Perhaps it's an idea whose time has come. Certainly I tell many of my clients and writing students that chances are good they'll accumulate enough rejection slips to paper at least one room of their houses; but certainly that's a depressing choice for wallpaper. Why not another kind of paper altogether?
Lulu goes on to say, "This groundbreaking new Lulu service recalls the remark attributed to (among others) the great Sir Winston Churchill, who is said to have written in reply to an unwelcome letter: Dear Sir, I am in the smallest room of the house. I have your letter before me. Soon it will be behind me."
Anyone want to try it out? Have the frustration level it takes to spend "from $90" to put it all behind you? Then go to Lulu's fabulous toilet paper offer -- and then come back and tell us all about it!
That will take you well... beyond the elements of style!
Jeannette Cézanne
Customline.com
