The society of authors were great helping me consider and negotiate the contract I signed
Mentioned a while back I’d got an offer. Well I did better than that- I got a deal for 2 books, so I’ve got a year to write a sequel! Scary but...
After years of querying and failing to get an agent I’ve just had an offer from a small press for my first book! A few hurdles yet to jump but...
Anyway I’m not being rejected, I’m just nothing! Total radio silence on my subs. I found a new indie press to submit to so I’ve done that and...
100% - this thread is about US and our rejections. We get to support each other for our bad luck and failings, not have a pop in a personal way at...
Rejection today. As it happens the agent is an agent for the son of my next door neighbour and all his mum does is complain about him - so while...
2 rejections in a day. One from the truly Hollywood agent who asked for a full MS on my last book. Gutted. Trying to remind myself of a recent...
Rejection from a late round of subs on book 1 for agents and agencies I either missed or didn’t exist originally. Meanwhile complete radio silence...
Told you I’d had beer. Went to log the rejection on my spreadsheet. It was for my first book and I’d subbed it 18 months ago! Yeah I’d kind of got...
Top tip- don’t check email after having an amazing night out and lots of beer. This pro forma rejection hurts!
I’ve found agents to be slower now than at any earlier time since I’ve been querying. It’s really, really tough. You just can’t assume anything at...
depends on genre I think. Like it or not bigger books cost more to manufacture. I think most debuts are 90k or less save fantasy and SF where it...
So true. Query letters aren’t easy either trying to distill a year or mores ideas into a couple of paragraphs
that’s a good one
While I have vague ideas of how to follow on the story my view is that I’m not writing a sequel unless i can sell the first
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