Have I done a shameful thing?

Have I done a shameful thing?
So I live up in the Northern Territory (NT) basically Australia's Texas or Montana.
Have literary ambitions. Start writing short stories and submitting them.
All the literary journals and publishers in this country are based in Melbourne and are entirely staffed by hipster faggots.
Get no love for my stories.
Think for a bit and come up with a better plan.
Write new stories and submit them under pen name claiming to be an aboriginal.
Small, groovy and very reputable indie press in Melbourne cums buckets over me. Tells me they love my "authentic voice of indigenous experience in the NT"
mfw i'm getting published
mfw i'm a fraud
mfw I beat the system
mfw a hipster girl in Melbourne had unprotected sex with me because she thought I was deep spiritual desert aboriginal guy

If they're retarded enough to fall for something like that and publish people just to look more progressive, then they deserve frauds like you. So no, you really didn't assuming you're not making this up, which you could be.

Also, while we're on the topic of aboriginals, do they really drink petrol or is that just a /pol/ or /int/ meme?

nobody cares

>beat the system
you perpetuated it, rather

They sniff it rather than drink it, it's so prevalent that they had to introduce a special type of petrol called Opal that is non-sniffable

Thanks for telling me. I had a bit in my book's draft where someone cracks a joke about aboriginal petrol drinking because I only vaguely remembered a post about their relationship with petrol. I'll edit it to sniffing now.

>Tells me they love my "authentic voice of indigenous experience in the NT"
Are you sure that adopting a persona more interesting than your own didn't just inspire you to write something more authentic and more literary than your normal voice?

Also, submit internationally. Being published in Australia is like winning gold in the special Olympics - it's nice, but in the end you're just the first amongst retards.

Either way, if you need a crutch to get published, you don't deserve to be there in the first place. Tumblr and Facebook will condemn you once the truth comes out. If you had any integrity, you'd use this experience to pen an interesting essay skewering the publishing industry ala Catherine Nichols.

This

Use the experience to show the hypocrisy of our current cultural climate.

But I don't agree about the publishing in Australia part. It's fine to be published in Australia. There are retards everywhere, and some great authors have been published in Australia.

>tfw a hipster girl from melbourne will never let me have unprotected sex with her

what's some good shit to get published under