Rejection to Perfection Weekend … Part Two

The best-selling author JK Rowling was pitching her first novel, TheCuckoo’s Calling, under her Robert Galbraith pseudonym and it was actually rejected by Constable and Robinson and Creme de laCreme publishers. The Cuckoo’s Calling, a post-war detective novel, went on to be a number one bestseller after eventually being published by Sphere Books in April 2013.

Rowling had chosen to write under a different name in order to publish without hype or expectation, after the phenomenal success of the Harry Potter series. The manuscript for this new book was submitted to a number of publishers and received several rejection letters, two of which Rowling recently chose to share.

This  letter from crime publishers, Creme de la Crime shows a short response simply stating the firm does not wish to accept new submissions. It looks like a standard rejection letter. I wonder what…