Spoke to a friend recently who told me his book had been rejected by a publisher who had earlier expressed interest. I felt badly for him, in part because I helped edit it, but in greater measure because it really is a good (nonfiction) book that has been carefully researched with solid documentation. So you say, well, he can just send it somewhere else, but the problem is, this is a volume of local history, which kinda means find a local publisher, and with many university presses either cutting back or shut down altogether, I think he is likely to have an uphill climb.

Sometimes writing can break your heart.