Oh, dear...looks like we have the latest in "I'm rejecting your rejection" blog entries. I spotted it via this blog, which I confess I often peek at because I'm a sucker for gossip. For those who don't want to click through, the upshot is that an author (previously published, I think) submitted a romantic suspense novel to Samhain and was rejected. The editor said in her letter that she hadn't liked the way the novel opened in the killer's POV, and that she felt the story moved around to much from scene to scene and POV to POV.
The author in question posted the full rejection letter, complete with editor's name attached, and turned it into a post basically talking about how Samhain clearly has "a rule" about no killer POVs, yada yada yada. Now admittedly, I'm reading from an editor's POV, not an author's, but to me this was a classic "write the angry letter, then delete it" moment. Looking at the rejection letter, it seems clear to me that the editor was tactfully saying, "You didn't execute this well." And the author's complaints have branded her, in my eyes, as "difficult."
Fair? Maybe not...but consider it yet another cautionary tale! (Or just a juicy train-wreck if you're petty like me .)
The author in question posted the full rejection letter, complete with editor's name attached, and turned it into a post basically talking about how Samhain clearly has "a rule" about no killer POVs, yada yada yada. Now admittedly, I'm reading from an editor's POV, not an author's, but to me this was a classic "write the angry letter, then delete it" moment. Looking at the rejection letter, it seems clear to me that the editor was tactfully saying, "You didn't execute this well." And the author's complaints have branded her, in my eyes, as "difficult."
Fair? Maybe not...but consider it yet another cautionary tale! (Or just a juicy train-wreck if you're petty like me .)