Not entirely unexpected. In fact what did I expect sending people writing with wiggly lines underneath? Rank amateur. Happily they got back to me sooner than expected. The best rejection is a fast one. I did once have a friend who had been engaged for about a million years because she just couldn’t really commit – as the years ticked by they both got older….
Therefore, fast rejection is a good rejection. I will now open a book and take bets on the number of people who will invoke J K Rowling and rejections and the record companies who turned the Beatles (peculiar name, do they know it’s spelled wrong?) down (funny music, no call for that.) There will be lots. Meanwhile a saying from the world of sport: winners never quit and quitters never win.
Accordingly a letter of enquiry has been sent to a publisher and when that comes back I will send the letter off to an agent. I will rewrite the letter each time but later today will re-examine the partial thingy with the wiggly lines and make sure they have all vanished.
Tomorrow I’m off to the hospital for a cancer check-up. When that is over I will hopefully be able to think more clearly.
In the meantime I am making Christmas cards now instead of in a rush in November and right now the sun is shining so I am off outside into my neglected garden.
Rejection sucks but giving up sucks your soul into a vacuum. Onwards and upwards.
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