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- Jun 13, 2014
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I was very very lucky, I did not follow any of the 'rules' of submission, I wrote a 'pitch' that I thought that I would read if it dropped on my desk,
I ended up in the wonderful position of having two publishers vying for the opportunity to publish my first work.
I did some rooting around and ended up choosing the smaller of the two as they seemed a lot more 'goshdarn downhome and friendly'
I signed a two book deal and the process began, as a new author I accepted all of their critiques and editing suggestions without question, I did not agree with them all but I was impatient, that is just me, I have been in the oil and gas business for years and have a very 'get it done' attitude, I wanted to see my work in print.
The final draft was ready, proofed and approved, whoopeedoooo let's go errrrrr not quite...after waiting for four weeks for a sample print I received instead...
Dear Sir, in retrospect, your novel is not quite what we are looking for at this point in time, we wish you all the yada yada yada...
They would not respond to any further correspondence. Had I been too aggressive or a pest, I do not know because they would not reply.
So rejection in this instance was even harder to take because the implication was that I was up and running. I had stopped sending out submissions the minute I signed the contract. I contacted the second publisher again but their schedule was full and they were not taking on any more new authors until further notice.
So what can you do?
Back to square one, start over again, lessons learned ... and at the end of the day don't beat yourself up, poo poos occur and once poo'ed there is little you can do about but flush and move on ... got to be said though I was thoroughly pissed off at the time I wasted ...
Joe
I ended up in the wonderful position of having two publishers vying for the opportunity to publish my first work.
I did some rooting around and ended up choosing the smaller of the two as they seemed a lot more 'goshdarn downhome and friendly'
I signed a two book deal and the process began, as a new author I accepted all of their critiques and editing suggestions without question, I did not agree with them all but I was impatient, that is just me, I have been in the oil and gas business for years and have a very 'get it done' attitude, I wanted to see my work in print.
The final draft was ready, proofed and approved, whoopeedoooo let's go errrrrr not quite...after waiting for four weeks for a sample print I received instead...
Dear Sir, in retrospect, your novel is not quite what we are looking for at this point in time, we wish you all the yada yada yada...
They would not respond to any further correspondence. Had I been too aggressive or a pest, I do not know because they would not reply.
So rejection in this instance was even harder to take because the implication was that I was up and running. I had stopped sending out submissions the minute I signed the contract. I contacted the second publisher again but their schedule was full and they were not taking on any more new authors until further notice.
So what can you do?
Back to square one, start over again, lessons learned ... and at the end of the day don't beat yourself up, poo poos occur and once poo'ed there is little you can do about but flush and move on ... got to be said though I was thoroughly pissed off at the time I wasted ...
Joe
