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[changeyourstars8]

Guess who got another rejection slip in the mail yesterday?

I was over at my parents telling them about it, and I said, "Well, apparently the book's 'an interesting manuscript with a lot of potentially interesting details, just not right for us at this time, but good luck and I hope you keep us in mind for future submissions'", and Chris said, "You know, the scary thing is she only read that once." And I grinned and said, "I've read it a bunch of times."

I think that's an author's rite of passage or something. Get through the twenty million rejection letters, and maybe you've got a chance.

But, in the spirit of getting back up on the horse after it's tossed you into a thorn bush, I'm going to

1) get some work done on my website
2) gather some new material to post after I've gotten a paid lj account (for those of you interested in reading the first chapters of We Were Strangers and Unexpected, some background stories for a few Karavan characters, and a horror story I wrote a couple of years back-- you're in luck) ;-)
3) after that's done, look through a directory of agents that Kath sent me a while back and start in with the query letters.

Comments

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Boo on rejection!

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Though the nice thing was, I picked up the envelope, told Chris who it was from, and when he saw my face upon reading it he said, "C'mon, let's go to the store and get you some ice cream." Sugar cures all ills. ;-)

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Well, that's one way to look at it, but from what Teresa Neilsen Hayden (http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004641.html), editor for Tor, says, that's actually an "I like your book and under other circumstances I'd have bought it" letter. All the same, *pats*, and I hope the next one buys it.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

:-) Thank you, and thanks for the link!

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Yeah, based on the TNH thread, it sounds like the problem was on their end not yours this round. They have all these business considerations that come into it, and it sounds like you just got unlucky in terms of timing and marketing. Someone obviously likes you if they're asking you to come back again sometime and see what they say.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

*S* Well, I still have their website saved, so I will keep them in mind.

[abydosangel.livejournal.com]

Ohh..horror story! Yey! :D