No matter what Jim Hanas says about writers being caught up in the lottery of “rejection porn,” I love reading about successful writers who made it after a gazillion rejections. I’m a sucker for lists that tells me how many times authors like J.K. Rowling, Louis L’Amour, Dan Brown, and C.S. Lewis were rejected. Why? Because knowing others found success after rejections is what kept me submitting my manuscript even though I gained a total of forty-seven forty-nine rejections. (Update: after I sold, I received 2 more rejections from retracted queries.) Fifteen of those were on full requests. And, to make things worse, …
Publishing
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I’m so honored to be part of the new journey of See Jane Publish. We launch today! “In June of 2011, three friends got together to blog out their trials, tribulations, and triumphs on the road to romance publishing. As with many journeys, their paths to publication wended and wandered, and their destinations took them further afield from See Jane Publish. So now eight new friends have stepped out onto the yellow bricks to share their adventures along the way.” Diagnosis, with the help of a doctor, can help you out and be your best friend! There are several different …