Always Partridge

So - here's a little perdrix - short and stout (a bit like me) - "Toujours Perdrix" means "Always Partridge" ie: too much of a good thing.

My inspiration today was the story of William Petre who, after 50 rejection letters from agents and publishers, has managed to get his book accepted by a literary agent. I have a piece of writing that I have been hawking around - a disheartening and expensive task - and have been getting letters like William got - "client lists full" ... "unable to take on any new writers" .... "of course ... only our opinion" ... I've only had about 12 such letters so far - even so, not so much of a good thing ....

William Petre's book - "The Alexander Cipher" - is described in "The Times" as "a fast-paced story which mixes fact and fiction. It focuses on the search for the tomb and fabulous treasures of Alexander the Great who died in 323BC having ruled an empire that extended from Thrace to Egypt and from Greece to the Indus Valley."

I'm looking forward to reading it - and take great heart from William's comment - "I treated evry 'no' as a signal to do better."