Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Who knew...
…being rejected could sound so nice.

I recently submitted three books to four different houses. One I never heard back from AT ALL so I subbed it elsewhere. One has moved on to the next round of “lemme think about this” and the last was asked to be edited some before they could really consider it.

I edited, they considered, but in the end, they decided to pass, as they weren’t thrilled with how my heroine handled one situation (they like kick-butt heroines and mine are usually just a hair less aggressive) but the letter they sent to reject me was actually quite nice and made me feel pretty good about my writing. How often can you say that???

To say the letter was sweet might be overdoing it a tad, but the editor was quite complimentary about my style/voice. She even said she will probably end up regretting not taking it–that has to be the nicest thing I have heard aside from “We’d like to offer you a contract.”

I will definitly think of them if I can ratchet up my heroines to a little more kick-butt gumption.

Has anyone ever made you feel good getting turned down? (Like I said, this was a first for me!)
Written at 9:04 AM by Denise McDonald.
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