Failure, Rejection, And Then Choices

My story ‘failed’ yesterday.
The reviews were great.
The sales were not.

The biggest concern is that the publisher
(a big New York publisher)
will drop my low selling a$$.
That will likely happen.
There’s little tolerance in many big companies
for failures.

Decades ago,
that would have been a huge blow
to my career.

Now, I have choices.
If I’m dropped by the publisher,
I could self publish these already edited stories tomorrow.
I could sell to a smaller publisher.
These options could be BETTER for my career.

And that’s why
the price of failure has never been lower.
I can fail and fail and fail
until I finally succeed.

You can also.
Don’t be afraid of failure.