Now that I have your attention, has anybody read Donald Maass's "Writing the Breakout Novel"? Yeah, I know. It's a couple years old but it's still got a lot of good, if depressing, meat in it. Basically he's saying the old ways don't work anymore. Ya gotta learn the new stuff. He's also saying, publishers don't give a damn whether you know how to write or not. All they give a damn about is: can y…