Tag Archive | rejection
5 Types Of Rejection Letters And What You Can Learn From Them
Originally posted on WritingMad:
On submission? Then you’re either roller coasting upwards, or plummeting down; maybe though you’ve only just begun. It still hurts to look at my fat folder of rejection letters, formerly known as ‘The Folder of Doom’, but I can’t bring myself to delete any of them. They’re badges of honour, aren’t…
My Journey into Creating a Publishing Company…Part One
Originally posted on Plaisted Formatting & Genealogy:
If I go back to when I first started writing in 2012 I didn’t know squat about publishing, never mind needing lessons in grammar, and the person’s voice. Like many others out there I tried traditional publishing. You remember the first publisher of Fifty Shades? It was an…
Rejection to Perfection Weekend … Part Two
Originally posted on Routine Matters:
Rejection to Perfection Weekend … Part Two The best-selling author JK Rowling was pitching her first novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling, under her Robert Galbraith pseudonym and it was actually rejected by Constable and Robinson and Creme de la Creme publishers. The Cuckoo’s Calling, a post-war detective novel, went on to be…
Writers: Stop Romanticizing Rejection. Or, Why I Love Amazon.
I read a wonderful post on The Atlantic by Kavita Das the other day, which discussed one of my pet peeves. Jamaican writer Marlon James recently won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his ri… Source: Writers: Stop Romanticizing Rejection. Or, Why I Love Amazon.
The Hanged Girl – Eighteen
Originally posted on The Darker Realms:
Image credit: Serge Zastavkin Lisa took the day off from the bookstore, claiming a migraine and getting the casual staff member Bruce to watch over the business for her in her absence. But in truth it was not a migraine that kept her away from work. Tonight was to…
The Rejection Window, Part II
Originally posted on Vampire Syndrome Blog:
Back in October 2011, I wrote “The Rejection Window“, a treatise about the big publishing industry’s future. The rejection window is the length of time an author will keep submitting and revising their unpublished manuscript to agents and large traditional publishing houses. What will define the future of the…
Being a writer
Originally posted on weebletheringskite:
So I have been a bit of a bad blogger of late. Actually I have been a sneaky bad blogger. My #100happydays series makes me look active, while in reality writing, blogging and all the rest of it – which some how has all got tangled up together – has been put…
Drunken Americans Behaving Badly in France
Originally posted on Christa Wojciechowski:
Hi everybody. Just to let you know, as part of my KDP Experiment I am trying one of Kindle Direct Publishing’s promotion options. This means my novelette, The Wrong David, is free on Amazon for the next five days! The Wrong David Grab your copy here. Many of you may have…
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