Around six years ago a publisher accepted a novel I wrote and then promptly went out of business. Thinking it was certainly possible I would wait another 20 years or so before I got another publisher since that is what it took the first time around (turns out I was wrong, though the next publisher to take that book also went out of business) I was kind of down on the whole writing thing. With my attitude toward writing taking a turn to the negative I got an idea for a very dark very violent apocalyptic story that reflected my attitude and mood. Though by the time I finished it my attitude had improved it remained the same. Publishers were uniformly unimpressed, so I wrote it again, changed some things (third person changed to first the big one) and the awesome dudes over at Spanking Pulp Press decided to publish it. Hopefully somebody will read it.