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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.