Dealing with Rejection

[Steve C]

Winston Churchill’s maxim: “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

Seems like good advice for those of us sending out query letters.

 

[E G Logan]

Also the following, from Rotten Reviews

"A southern (U.S.) writer named John Kennedy Toole wrote a comic novel about life in New Orleans called A Confederacy of Dunces. It was so relentlessly rejected by publishers that he killed himself. That was in 1969. His mother refused to give up on the book. She sent it out and got it back, rejected, over and over again. At last she won the patronage of Walker Percy, who got it accepted by the Louisiana State University Press, and in 1980 it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction."

 

[Hannah F]

Also the following, from Rotten Reviews

"A southern (U.S.) writer named John Kennedy Toole wrote a comic novel about life in New Orleans called A Confederacy of Dunces. It was so relentlessly rejected by publishers that he killed himself. That was in 1969. His mother refused to give up on the book. She sent it out and got it back, rejected, over and over again. At last she won the patronage of Walker Percy, who got it accepted by the Louisiana State University Press, and in 1980 it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction."

Yeah, I heard about them. Wow. Extreme way to get a deal though. I don't recommend it.

 

[E G Logan]

Extreme way to get a deal though. I don't recommend it.

Wasn't suggesting that! Though being nice to your mother is always good...

 

[Steve C]

It was so relentlessly rejected by publishers that he killed himself.

He must have lost his enthusiasm.

 

[HayleyG]

That's such a good book!