Dick decides to send his latest book to his publisher under his old pen name Dwight Schmidlapp hoping his publisher would find it amusing. But instead sends the book back. So Dick sets out to find a new publisher and insists on putting his pen name on the book. But when the book is being sent back, he starts to feel like he no longer has what it takes. That is until one of the inn's annoying guests tells of a publisher he knows. So Dick goes to see him but the man refuses to read an unknown's work.
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