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The Ones That Got Away

Kelly Jun 6 2018
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Industry Life, Miscellaneous

I divide my email into folders and sub folders to stay organized. I’ve got a folder for Request and within that: Offer, Pass, and…The Ones That Got Away. Agents deal with rejection, too, and in those moments I have to remind myself of the same thing I tell writers: It’s not personal. Authors have a lot to consider when deciding whether or not to accept an offer of representation, and ultimately they need to go […]

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Why Rejection on a First Book Can Be a Blessing

Nov 15 2017
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Industry Life

Okay, I get it. Writing is hard. And not only is it hard, it’s time-consuming, sometimes all-consuming. You fall in love with your characters, your world, your stakes. You love your work. You believe in your work. So as a querying writer or an agented writer going on submission for the first time, you want more than anything for an agent or editor to see all the things that you love about your work and […]

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Moving Beyond Rejection and Into the New Year!

Jan 29 2016
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After the… Series, Before the Deal Series, Industry Life, Inspiration, Writing Life

Rejection. We’ve all been there, starting with the threesome of friends that decided to become a twosome without you, or the unrequited love you slathered on that skinny basketball player in sixth grade. Writing is not for the faint of heart. It often feels like the bad days outnumber the good, that the days of utter dejection and rejection will stop the ship from sailing all together. Many days, I feel like the luckiest person […]

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A Love Letter to my Rejections

Jodi Feb 7 2014
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Inspiration, Writing Life

This is something a lot of you know about me already, but I have a lot of rejections. Need proof? Look down. Yes, it looks like a ream of paper, but I swear to commas: those are my rejections. From agents. It’s a lot. It looks overwhelming. It looks like I should have just quit. But here’s the thing: I’m grateful for every one of these rejections, because they were right: I wasn’t ready. Not writing wise, […]

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The Request to Revise and Resubmit

Julie Oct 7 2013
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Before the Deal Series, Beginner Resources, Industry Life, Writers Toolbox, Writing Life

Revision is an integral part of the writing process. Consider this quote from a recent special edition of Time magazine entitled The 100 Most Influential People Who Never Lived: Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly failed, miserably, at its debut on Feb. 17, 1904, only to be hailed as a triumph on May 28, 1904, after the Italian composer gave it a major overhaul and staged a new version. Puccini finally stopped tinkering with the piece […]

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