[Travis McGee]

I'm going the self-publishing and internet route initially.

I am not willing to crawl on my knees up and down 5th avenue, only to be sneered at by facially-pierced liberal elitists.

Remember, Tom Clancy could not get The Hunt For Red October published in New York, and he found another way.

I think he has sold a few books since then.

[Poohbah]

Remember, Tom Clancy could not get The Hunt For Red October published in New York, and he found another way.

IIRC, Clancy approached the US Naval Institute Press first, never bothering to approach New York, and the USNI had a long internal debate about publishing fiction (which they had not done before).