Comments on: It’s Not You, It’s Me.

by: S William Shaw

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:29:58 +0000

“cultivate confidence in my own work”

If I didn’t have confidence, to some degree, in my work, I couldn’t submit it. And wouldn’t.

by: Melissa Marsh

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:05:40 +0000

With my last book, I was actually expecting it to get rejected because I instinctively knew it wasn’t yet “good” enough to get published. Although I got requests for fulls, etc., it still gave me a great learning experience.

Now with the novel I’m working on, I think it’s MUCH better than my last book. An agent has had a partial for two months and I haven’t heard a thing. I’m on TETHERHOOKS.

by: Eric

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:55:24 +0000

I think I’m shielded from this by the fact I plan to self-publish. Although that may mean rejection will hit a little harder in the form of lost sales.

At least I won’t have to go through the submission process though…

by: Therese Walsh

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:36:08 +0000

The hardest rejections for me haven’t been the impersonal form letters but rather the “sooooo close, nice job, send more” notes. They make me tuck my head in my lap and rethink the meaning of life…or at least writer-hood. Though don’t mistake: I have plenty of form rejections–probably enough to paper my office. Seriously!

by: Kathleen Bolton

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:04:45 +0000

I never thought this would ever be possible, but I’ve been rejected so much, it ceases to hurt anymore. I’m astonished when I’m NOT rejected. The good thing about it is that I can look at the “feedback” objectively and know when the critique is real or when it’s a canned response because the editor doesn’t have time or energy for a more personal rejection.

One good thing about being on the end of serial rejections is that it frees one of the fear of rejection. If that makes sense.

Multi-pubbed/award winning author Jason Starr has some interesting things to say regarding rejections. We start part one of our interview with him on Friday. Very enlightening.