I’m opting out of my usual “this post originally appeared…” tagline to introduce the following. It did in fact appear on my previous blog on January 11 of last year, but I’m sharing it now because the discussion is still relevant, and perhaps even more so in today’s publishing environment than it was a year ago. The article was written January 8 of 2015 by Daniel Menaker, a fiction writer and editor, and is entitled “The Gatekeepers.”   This morning I found myself weeding through a week’s worth of Google Alerts in my inbox, and promised myself yet again that I would keep up daily with the alerts I subscribe to. Although…