By any other name… For those who think sequentially, feel free to consider this post a direct descendant of something I put on Strictly Writing, not so long ago, just for fun.Rejection can be a bitter pill to take, not least because it isn’t always clear what to do next. Oh, sure, you can dive …
Tag: literary agents
Turn that frown upside down!
It used to be that people defined themselves as being either glass-half-full or glass-half-empty. That, of course, was back in the days when we could afford our own glass. The debate about the relative merits of being optimistic (motivated and aspirational) versus pessimistic (rarely disappointed) will continue long after I’m gone. And we could even …
Here’s Looking At You
I trust I’m not alone in that when I check out the reader reviews on sites like Amazon, I always look at the lowest scores first. It’s not literary schadenfreude that drives me, it’s the same approach I take with my own work. Some would say that makes me a glass empty kinda guy. More …
Right to (a) Reply
I don’t often do requests, but a fellow writer who has browsed this blog recently took me to task. He said I was being less than honest about those agents and publishers which have been a little tardy, neglectful or outspoken with their communications. I maintained – and still do – that it’s not only …
Next!
Kipling may have written: ‘… If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same…’ but I’ll bet his novel hasn’t just been declined by a major UK publishing house. Of the two imposters, I know which one I’d like to write to me! There are several positives, despite …