EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY by John A. A. Logan
A dogge hath a day. [1545 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus' Adages (ed. 2) 63] Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. [1600-1 Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 286] Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day. [1863 C. Kingsley Water Babies ii.] It’s over two years now since my literary agent said to me, I can’t remember if it was on the phone or by email – “Every Dog Has His Day” I think by then my novel, The Survival of Thomas Ford , had been failing to sell to London and Edinburgh publishers for six months, the novel my agent had initially described as “a certainty”…hope was dwindling, I did not feel at all like a Canine which was destined to have “its day”. Still, it was a worthwhile thing for him to say to me, it has stuck in my brain ever since. Later that year, 2011, the Door to ePublish...