We talk about the novel adaptation. With an exclamation point. A latter-day Ulysses . And without the funny cartoons. You must prepare for rejection.
Rejection is always a possibility.
The best minds of previous generations were destroyed by rejection. Lex Luthor, for instance. And my dead father. Because of this, you need to be at the ready, need to have made the proper preparations. I sit, close to the telephone, one eye on the fax machine, waiting patiently for the mid-morning mail delivery.