The Rejection
October 22nd 2006 01:54
Yes, it happens to me as well, the DREDED REJECTION LETTER.
Okay, look at it like this, you’re a publisher sitting in your office. On one side of your desk is a pile of manuscripts. Perhaps as many as two hundred of them, and that’s only today’s post. Well, the truth is that it doesn’t work that way. The truth is, that most publishers do not accept unsolicited stories.
You see, there is a Catch 22. Publishers will look at your work if it is submitted by an agent, Gotcha, agents generally require that you have a contract with a publisher before they will take you on as a client.
Oh yeah, if you are a celebrity and have written a load of banal drivel you can be published tomorrow.
Don’t look at me like that, it’s not my fault.
Don’t like it? Quit now. Honestly.
Of course you could be one of those people who are pig headed stubborn, your work is the worlds best (insert genre here) novel ever written. It was spell checked and everything.
‘Did you send it to an independent editor?’
‘No. I told you it is perfect, I even used the spell check twice.’
Get the point.
Here is a secret. Don’t tell anybody. Okay. I mean it.
If you write Scifi, fantasy or romance then there is probably a book shop that specialises in your genre, in your closest capital city. So what? I hear you say.
Well, did you know that there are conventions for genres where you can actually meet and talk with publishers and/or agents.
You can find out about such conventions at specialist genre book shops.
Give up, never!
Okay, look at it like this, you’re a publisher sitting in your office. On one side of your desk is a pile of manuscripts. Perhaps as many as two hundred of them, and that’s only today’s post. Well, the truth is that it doesn’t work that way. The truth is, that most publishers do not accept unsolicited stories.
You see, there is a Catch 22. Publishers will look at your work if it is submitted by an agent, Gotcha, agents generally require that you have a contract with a publisher before they will take you on as a client.
Oh yeah, if you are a celebrity and have written a load of banal drivel you can be published tomorrow.
Don’t look at me like that, it’s not my fault.
Don’t like it? Quit now. Honestly.
Of course you could be one of those people who are pig headed stubborn, your work is the worlds best (insert genre here) novel ever written. It was spell checked and everything.
‘Did you send it to an independent editor?’
‘No. I told you it is perfect, I even used the spell check twice.’
Get the point.
Here is a secret. Don’t tell anybody. Okay. I mean it.
If you write Scifi, fantasy or romance then there is probably a book shop that specialises in your genre, in your closest capital city. So what? I hear you say.
Well, did you know that there are conventions for genres where you can actually meet and talk with publishers and/or agents.
You can find out about such conventions at specialist genre book shops.
Give up, never!
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