Johnny Harvard

Let’s give an example of how power works.

The Harvard graduate, let’s call him, Johnny Harvard, writes a book.

At the same time, let’s say that you, a plebe, Ernest Steinbeck, write another book.

You will submit your proposal for your book through cold queries. You will not have an agent You will know nobody.

You will call Creative Artists Agency, and they will tell you flat out that they only represent people who are referred to them. That’s a stone cold fact.

They’re not interested in street garbage.

So you will suffer through endless rejections. You will begin to wonder if anybody even read your query letters.

Probably they went STD – straight to dumpster.

You will purchase every book that you can find on how to get published. None of the tips in these books will work.

You will peruse through the bookstore and see an endless number of books that did get published, and you will ask yourself: How the fuck did they do that? I can’t even get to square one.

You will begin to get depressed. You will ask yourself whether you have the right stuff. You’ll get more depressed. You will re-examine your sentence structure and your composition endlessly.

Your friends will be of no help because they are unconnected nobodies like you. One friend helpfully recommends a local attorney who does divorces. Maybe he knows someone, your friend suggests. He doesn’t; he handles divorces.

Finally, and getting nowhere, you will dabble into self-publication. That will end up being a fruitless venture because then you will be taking on the role of a publisher instead of a writer.

The last thing you need, you will conclude, is to have two occupations – publisher, and writer. Not only that, no one will be buying your books. No one will be seeing your books.

You will try to get representation, but you will soon figure out that getting representation is as difficult as securing someone at a publishing company to read your book.

Finally, you will content yourself with being a writer for the sake of being a writer. You will come to the conclusion that if no one sees what you write, that’s the way it’s meant to be.

You will begin to empathize with Vincent, van Gogh and Vivian Maier.

Eventually, you will live out your life in obscurity while being a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, or any other occupation. But no one will know you as a writer.

Now, let’s look at Johnny Harvard. Johnny Harvard writes a pretty good book. We are not going to take that away from him. He’s not a slouch.

Does Johnny Harvard make cold queries? Maybe. But what is more likely is that Johnny Harvard will show that book he wrote to his professor or one of the connected people he has met at Harvard.

Well, as it turns out, Johnny’s professor was a classmate of the CEO of Random House. Johnny’s professor likes the book, and so he calls his friend and recommends that the CEO take a look at Johnny’s book.

The CEO doesn’t have the time right now to read the book, but he assigns the book to one of his trusted lieutenants and lets him know that this book comes recommended.

Just like that Johnny Harvard has someone look at his book.

Of course, the book still has to have the right stuff. No one is suggesting that the CEO of Random House will publish a piece of crap.

That’s not the point.

The point is that Johnny Harvard breaks through a maze of obstacles and barriers in a heartbeat.

People who are connected tend to dismiss the importance of that fact.

I don’t.

Breaking through is 90% of the battle.

And that is how power works. That is how the Harvard Cartel works.

Harvard is not just a school; it’s an indoctrination program that the ruling elite run.

Harvard attendees are indoctrinated into a cult of power.

And when they are finished, they are members of the club.

And with membership comes benefits.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

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