rejection update

just a little update from me to the vast emptiness here.
i am a few rejections further into my quest for publication, and though i am not (as of yet) disheartened, i am unsure if the rejections are coming in based on the brief portions of my manuscript or from a less than spectacular query letter / synopsis.

i'm still plugging away though - in a sea of No, i'm searching for a Yes. There should be one out there, right?

in the meantime, i've been assuaging my woes with creative fancy rum cocktails for enjoyment in our new backyard tiki hut... rejections are so much better when combined with a variation on a Mai Tai or Painkiller.

a dash of bitters, garnished with a broken typewriter.

The First Rejection

it's official - i am now a rejected author. not dejected... yet. i know that most of my submissions will be rejected without any notice - if i don't hear back in 4 weeks it's a no thank you. but - i actually got a polite decline. It's all part of it, right?

Dear Author,

Many thanks for your email regarding your manuscript, which I am declining with my regrets.

Given the demands of running a boutique agency and continuing to best represent our current clients, we must make difficult decisions every day regarding what new projects we can sign.  I appreciate your thinking of "this agency", and wish you the best of luck in your search for representation.

Best,

Query Letter Number One

If you had to choose between living forever with the one you love or losing them in order to save the world, what would you do?

That's the beginning. Not of the Novel, but of the Query letter. Today I emailed my very first of probably many, and it was difficult.

All I had to do was hit "send". But I struggled with that little button click. Tougher than writing the last page of the actual novel. Trickier than telling people i have a finished novel. 

That's easy. But now? now it's officially real. It's out there. Not the book, as such, but I am beginning to let The Agents know that I am here, that I exist, and that yes... there's a new book waiting to be read.

I know that perhaps nothing will happen until I write book # 2, or book # 3... but without this, without book # 1, there is nothing else.

so, here we go. 

2013, and I'm hoping that there will be some people willing to listen to the Devil's Jukebox.

-M