Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. Agatha Christie Nothing beats a good book. It's the one and only thing you have to offer. No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write. If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a book tour.