According to his ex-wife, apparently even Sir Salman Rushdie, author of Midnight’s Children, ‘needed consoling every time he failed to win the Nobel Prize’.
Somehow I don’t feel so bad now about being rejected by Woman’s Weekly.
The Rejection Blues
07 Monday Mar 2016
Posted in Maggie
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That Nobel disappointment…hard to bear, don’t you find? http://gifsec.com/wp-content/uploads/GIF/2014/03/Laughing-GIF.gif
That’s how I look when I’ve just grabbed the last handful of crisps at one of our reading sessions…
And this is me when you get the last of the crisps… No crisps!
Won’t even mention that lonely piece of chocolate fudge cake on my coffee table at the close of our last meeting…