Well, Quickbread and Carleree, you can uncross those fingers as far as I'm concerned.
Editor wrote:
This is well written and very interesting stuff. A very valuable book. However, it isn’t the type of book we’re currently being successful with given a very poor and picky marketplace at present.
I would like to be able to consider this in the near future should our market improve. In the meantime, feel free to shop it around to other publishers, but let me know down the road if it’s still available and if our market is more amendable at that time, I would seriously consider it and would quite like to publish it.
Not quite sure how to read this. He could have stopped the letter after the first paragraph.
It would have been nice if he would have asked for my proposal, which contained a market analysis. But I can't argue with someone who deals with the market, I guess.
Maybe I should do what my husband suggests, changing the title to "Curing Autism With Quantum Crystal Power." That title would be inaccurate, but maybe I could justify it in a "made you look, didn't I?" sort of way.
Looks like I need to research small presses now. What is the best way? Writers' Market?
Oh, oh... Caps just scored. And my husband brought me a glass of wine. I will survive.
