No news on the query front. I am working on my A-Team, Oh, Please submission list. And I have a can of chocolate frosting ready for the first rejection. That was my old rule: whenever a rejection came in I got a can of frosting. I had to have another query in the mail by the time the frosting was gone. With e-submissions I might have diabetes by the time this is over.
Speaking of optimism, I wanted to mention one important fact about novels: there is at least one good reason why any novel ever written should fail. One absolute, everyone-knows-it truth that should lead to rejection for any book. It's different for every book, of course, but you can come up with any number of them:
"I'm sorry, Mr. Faulkner, but readers in the north don't want folksy southern tales these days."
"Ms. Rowling, YA readers are girls. They want female main characters."
"Get out of my office and go learn how to tell a story, Mr. Joyce."
It's easy to get wrapped up in all the reasons a book shouldn't work. And it's a good thing to bear in mind while waiting for agents to give you a bunch of new reasons you've never thought of why yours won't.
1 comment:
"It's too long! It would take longer to read this than the ACTUAL Civil War, Mrs. Mitchell."
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