Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Feeling Good About Chances

I'm still waiting on word from the publishers who have partials and fulls. Now that the holiday season is over, the responses are likely to come. I wonder how many responses will arrive from those publishers to whom I only sent queries.

I have gone through this before with agents, and everyone seems to have their own way of saying no. IMO, a simple "not for me" or "doesn't fit" is a cool rejection. But I don't buy it when they say things like, "the writing isn't there yet." Since I have an agent and a contract in hand, that's all the proof I need to believe my writing is "there." So when an agent or editor implies otherwise, I know to take it with a grain of salt. These agents or editors probably didn't even read the material. That's OK, just spare me the BS, that's all.

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