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This is like a rollercoaster on LSD - very crazy. I looked at my inbox and there was a full request for my new novel from a well known agency; so I was overjoyed and was just about to celebrate and go and by the champagne when I noticed an email from a different agent (very big) rejecting my full, saying it wasn't quite right for them.
This must break some records somewhere along the line. So I was super up for literally ten minutes when I got a request for a full MS, then ......... disaster - my initial full was rejected by the other guys.
So now I'm a bit depressed - having two fulls out there was amazing after sending out 13 manuscripts. And now it's only 1.
I guess I'm doing something right and politely asked the guy who rejected me why it didn't 'fit with him'.
I used to love playing poker and to be honest, trying to get a book published is very similar in terms of the emotional ups and downs - there just isn't enough valium in the world to calm me down right now - but hey, I'm a writer, so it would make a good short story. Oh well back to sending out the MS. Whenever I get a rejection I always respond to it by sending more out there.
And after writing for six years with nothing published, I'm aiming to approach 100UK agents and 100 US agents - that's my year's work.
Bit downhearted though.
Turnip
This is like a rollercoaster on LSD - very crazy. I looked at my inbox and there was a full request for my new novel from a well known agency; so I was overjoyed and was just about to celebrate and go and by the champagne when I noticed an email from a different agent (very big) rejecting my full, saying it wasn't quite right for them.
This must break some records somewhere along the line. So I was super up for literally ten minutes when I got a request for a full MS, then ......... disaster - my initial full was rejected by the other guys.
So now I'm a bit depressed - having two fulls out there was amazing after sending out 13 manuscripts. And now it's only 1.
I guess I'm doing something right and politely asked the guy who rejected me why it didn't 'fit with him'.
I used to love playing poker and to be honest, trying to get a book published is very similar in terms of the emotional ups and downs - there just isn't enough valium in the world to calm me down right now - but hey, I'm a writer, so it would make a good short story. Oh well back to sending out the MS. Whenever I get a rejection I always respond to it by sending more out there.
And after writing for six years with nothing published, I'm aiming to approach 100UK agents and 100 US agents - that's my year's work.
Bit downhearted though.
Turnip