47 rejections
Category : agent search, query distress, writing | Posted : Apr 24th, 2008
That’s 47 rejections, including the 19 people who never responded.
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fuck it
Category : agent search, query distress | Posted : Apr 7th, 2008
Thank you so much for allowing us the opportunity to review your novel,TITLE. We read the material with great interest and enjoyed your quick pacing and satiric style. However, I am sorry to say we must pass on representing this project. Unfortunately, we didn’t quite fall in love with the story in the way that […]
a tough call
Category : agent search, writing | Posted : Mar 13th, 2008
Every now and then during the publishing process an agent or editor will ask you to make changes to your existing MS before they will represent it. It actually happened with my first agent and we spent months revising and rewriting LLThat prior to even signing our contract together. Later in our relationship, when she was […]
tom tom
Category : agent search, celebrity babble, writing | Posted : Mar 1st, 2008
It’s weird not being in the middle of a writing project. It actually makes me uncomfortable not to be working on something, but lately I just don’t feel like it. I’m not sure what I want to devote my creativity to now that I’m done with SP and pages of it are flying around the USA […]
back in business
Category : agent search | Posted : Feb 26th, 2008
I’m back from vacation and will resume posting about my submissions as I receive responses from my query letters. Stay tuned.
more about that last post
Category : agent search, query distress | Posted : Feb 7th, 2008
To be honest the search is very discouraging as any writer, published or not, will admit. A very nice rejection can be almost more disappointing than even the most impersonal form notecard. When they tell you why they didn’t want to keep reading, it’s all you can do not to rip your hair out in […]
no thanks
Category : agent search | Posted : Feb 7th, 2008
Someone once told me (and I can’t remember who) that once you’ve had a book published, it’s easy to get another book published. What I’m actually finding out is that person actually meant, once you’ve had a bestseller published, it’s easy to get another book published.
Having had a book published actually means you get a personalized […]
More about rejection
Category : agent search, query distress | Posted : Oct 15th, 2007
I’m a month into my search for a new literary agent and I’m already bored and uninspired by it. Despite encouraging writers to send email queries on agency websites, email is obviously not the way to go if you want a response. (They warn that they might not respond if they aren’t interested, but personally […]