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Six Months I'll Never Get Back
Which Hazel? got turned down by the publishing house I wrote it for. Mind you, they didn't ask me to write it, I just really thought they'd want it since I'm so great and Hazel is so great and blah blah blah. But they didn't. Which means that this particular house has actually turned me down twice (I sent them Sadie as well).
So...what does it actually mean when they say it "does not fit (their) publishing needs"?
It doesn't neccesarily mean I suck, does it? Or does it?
I doubt it. It probably means something more like "I don't know who you are or what this is, but we don't want to be bothered by your drivel" which at least means it's on them for not reading it.
Then again, Hazel is not really my best work. It's outside my genre of choice and was written for the purpose of being marketable. And it isn't, which I guess makes it a failure on many levels. Then again, even writing a shitty novel is probably good practice. Thankfully, the one I'm working on now is scarier, and much less shitty.
And now...to drown my sadness in a nice nap.
Later I'll get up, write, and maybe have a tuna melt.
So...what does it actually mean when they say it "does not fit (their) publishing needs"?
It doesn't neccesarily mean I suck, does it? Or does it?
I doubt it. It probably means something more like "I don't know who you are or what this is, but we don't want to be bothered by your drivel" which at least means it's on them for not reading it.
Then again, Hazel is not really my best work. It's outside my genre of choice and was written for the purpose of being marketable. And it isn't, which I guess makes it a failure on many levels. Then again, even writing a shitty novel is probably good practice. Thankfully, the one I'm working on now is scarier, and much less shitty.
And now...to drown my sadness in a nice nap.
Later I'll get up, write, and maybe have a tuna melt.