tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299583108770114866.post8730351901349399806..comments2015-04-27T06:53:28.397-04:00Comments on The Scribbling Novelist: The Queen of Rejection Would Like to Renounce Her ThroneTanyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11551390006758943315noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299583108770114866.post-35821406702907674402012-06-26T18:44:43.457-04:002012-06-26T18:44:43.457-04:00You think it's time to try again? I could take...You think it's time to try again? I could take a look at the submission materials and make them better. I do think that the novel is too long overall. I wish I knew how to cut like 150 pages out. All YA novels are pretty short. <br /><br />I look at acknowledgments sections ALL the time! I like to read about how authors made it (and it helps seeing who they thanked). I need to do more agent research... in some ways, I feel like I need to finish up the three novels. <br /><br />What did Seuss have? 37 or something like that... I ripped out a magazine page about his rejections once and had it on my bulletin board. I guess I have like 24 more to go (for my novel anyway). But I'm counting the 70 short story rejections under my belt too. :/Tanyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11551390006758943315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299583108770114866.post-41544259421309125632012-06-25T22:56:15.427-04:002012-06-25T22:56:15.427-04:00Time to get back on the horse and try again. Maybe...Time to get back on the horse and try again. Maybe even some of the same agencies. It's amazing how many rejections people go through before success comes along. I think until I read "Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul" (cliche, I know), I had no clue... while they sort of give everything their "careful consideration," sometimes they really don't. And sometimes they just already hit their quota. An agent that says no today, says yes a year later. <br /><br />Anyway, since it's been six months, I think it'd be good to send out to a new round. If you know of books like, or kind of like yours, check out the acknowledgements and figure out who their agents are. And, depending on if you've even looked at it or not in the last six months, maybe editing your synopsis and proposal/query letter some more. Maybe look at that first chapter. Ultimately agents are just readers, and consider how many books WE have passed up in the bookstore because of the blurb or first chapter.<br /><br />12 rejections is nothing compared to Dr. Seuss' :-)B :)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01089006851744693127noreply@blogger.com