Remember when you were younger and you summoned all of your strength to ask that really cute guy out? And then remember the feeling you felt afterwards when he turned you down? Yah, that's how writing a book and then being rejected feels.
Now before I start going into a sob story about how I will never be published and that I will always be this big loser that tried and failed....let me give you some rejections to very well-known authors.
arry Potter: Turned down 12 times
Gone with the Wind: Turned down 38 times
A Wrinkle in Time: Rejected 29 times
H.G. Wells: "The War of the Worlds" that said,
"An endless nightmare. I do not believe it would "take"...I think the verdict
would be 'Oh don't read that horrid book'."
Mary Higgins Clark: "We found the heroine as boring as
her husband did."
Ernest Hemingway: "We found the heroine as boring as
her husband did."
And the list goes on and on. You can check out more of these famous rejections at this website. So anyways, I blog about this because this is the rejection I received today...
Dear Laura:
Thanks for sending along the pages of your manuscript, DUST. Truth be told,
though, I'm afraid these pages just didn't draw me in as much as I had hoped.
I'm pressed for time these days and, what with my reservations about the
project, I suspect I wouldn't be the best fit. Thanks so much for contacting me
and for giving me this opportunity. It's much appreciated, and I'm sorry to be
passing. I wish you the very best of luck in your search for representation.
So, I'm not quite sure what that all means...she likes the concept, but the writing needs more work than what she has time for?
I'm allowed to feel down about it, but I'm just going to keep chugging along and trying my best. Even the best authors were turned down at one point in their career!!
Now before I start going into a sob story about how I will never be published and that I will always be this big loser that tried and failed....let me give you some rejections to very well-known authors.
arry Potter: Turned down 12 times
Gone with the Wind: Turned down 38 times
A Wrinkle in Time: Rejected 29 times
H.G. Wells: "The War of the Worlds" that said,
"An endless nightmare. I do not believe it would "take"...I think the verdict
would be 'Oh don't read that horrid book'."
Mary Higgins Clark: "We found the heroine as boring as
her husband did."
Ernest Hemingway: "We found the heroine as boring as
her husband did."
And the list goes on and on. You can check out more of these famous rejections at this website. So anyways, I blog about this because this is the rejection I received today...
Dear Laura:
Thanks for sending along the pages of your manuscript, DUST. Truth be told,
though, I'm afraid these pages just didn't draw me in as much as I had hoped.
I'm pressed for time these days and, what with my reservations about the
project, I suspect I wouldn't be the best fit. Thanks so much for contacting me
and for giving me this opportunity. It's much appreciated, and I'm sorry to be
passing. I wish you the very best of luck in your search for representation.
So, I'm not quite sure what that all means...she likes the concept, but the writing needs more work than what she has time for?
I'm allowed to feel down about it, but I'm just going to keep chugging along and trying my best. Even the best authors were turned down at one point in their career!!