Pretty much every author out there will have Landlady’s Loose Legsa rejection story or two.
Not many will have ones quite as dramatic as the tale author Mark Leidner shared on Twitter this week, though.
SEE ALSO: J.K. Rowling's rejection letters give hope to the writer in us allHere it is, in all its ridiculous glory:
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Understandably, people had some questions.
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By this point, plenty of people were a tad sceptical.
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Others, meanwhile, were simply happy to sit back and enjoy the story -- made up or not.
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Ultimately, though, the author eventually returned to Twitter to reveal the answer.
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Yep: as you probably guessed by now the whole thing is made up, likely timed to promote Leidner's short story collection Under the Sea.
Hey -- it was still a wild ride while it lasted though, right?
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Seems like the best way to promote your stories these days might well be with yet another story.
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