Feeling blue about having your latest manuscript rejected? Don't. A reminder that publishing is a business, and not necessarily about art. Wait, Starbucks is going to publish books? Weird.
Check out Q&A 45 on Rejection Letters over at the EvilEditor's blog. Note to self: invest in quality hamburger flipper.
And in case you didn't follow the link in the EvilEditor's blog: hey, if Jane Austen got rejected, so can you! Say, "I am as good a writer as Jane Austen." Repeat as many times as necessary until you believe it.
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Um, 2 comments please. 1st, the link to why editors use form rejections doesn't go anywhere. That just seems right, doesn't it? But maybe you actually meant for it to lead to something bigger than itself.
2nd, I appreciate the acknowledgement, that we, the rejected, ARE just as good as those other writers that did get published, eventually. Because it really is just a matter of finding someone who likes your work as well as your mother does, someone who has the means to make it into a published work. And there are all sorts of editors out there, with all sorts of criteria. So we just have to keep on sending it out, sending it out, sending it out. Eventually we will find our fit, right? That's what you were trying to tell us, isn't it?
I may seem anonymous, but I'm really MEL
Hi Mel. Thanks for the tip about the link. For the life of me I can't get the permanent link to the post to work. Grrr. I think the EvilEditor's query letter feature is really funny, in a Miss Snark kind of way. But after he's done making fun of the query letters, he offers very useful advice.
Second, I totally agree with you. I do believe that there is a publishing venue for all of us, and we have to not get too depressed about rejection if we can at all help it. A sense of humor is really useful. My favorite story about rejection is from an author (someone well known, but for the life of me I can't remember who) who wallpapered her bathroom with rejection slips.
Hey Dar,
Just wanted to recommend a site to all those rejected submitters out there. (not that we're in anyway submissive, just wanted to make that perfectly clear!)
www.duotrope.com was recommended to me by a friend now residing in CH and has offered a plethora of available publication opportunities, both virtual and hardcopy. (are you impressed by my vocab?) Try it on for size, y'all. opps, by try self has gone and shown through).
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