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I realize that there probably is no one answer, but in your experience (if, sadly, you were unfortunate to it), how many rejections from publishers for a fiction ms before the agent says "enough".
Too many agents are concerned more with the size of the advance than with the writer's future, and this limits the number of rejections they'll take. It's nonsense. There should be no limit, except for the fact that there's not a single publisher left to send it to.
Some extremely good and famous novels were rejected numerous times before being accepted. The Good Earth, for example, was rejected something like seventy-nine times.
Too many agents today only want to submit to the top dozen or so publishers, and while this may help their bank accounts, it does nothing for most writers.
I'm assuming this is just your opinion rather than anything based on actual facts and figures.
I doubt that; James knows what he speaks about.
I doubt that; James knows what he speaks about.
I'm still waiting for facts and figures.
*shrugs*
Okay, here you go:
Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis (15)
Carrie, Stephen Kng (30)
Chicken Soup for the Soul, Jack Canfeld and Mark Victor Hansen (140)
Diary of Anne Frank (16)
Dr. Seuss books (15)
Dubliners, James Joyce (22)
Dune, Frank Herbert (23)
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (38)
Harry Potter book one, J. K. Rowling (9)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach (18)
Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl (20)
M*A*S*H, Richard Hooker (17)
The Peter Principle, Laurence Peter (16)
The Prncess Diaries, Meg Cabot (17)
Watership Down, Richard Adams (26)
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle, (26
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (38) She died pretty soon after, so surely she sent all 38 queries out at the same time?
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (38)
Okay, here you go:
Watership Down, Richard Adams (26)