Sentences with phrase «of piles of rejection letters»

Gone are the days of piles of rejection letters and agents; being replaced instead by on demand eBooks and indie author sensations.

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In Victor Levin's appealing romance 5 To 7, Anton Yelchin plays Brian Bloom, a young fiction writer who's determined to reach the literary mountaintop by climbing a pile of rejection letters.

Despite dutifully following the suggestions delineated in Writer's Market, widely accepted as the bible of struggling authors, all I have to show for my efforts to date is a big pile of rejection letters from publishers and agents.

But she has aspirations, as attested by a pile of rejection letters from the fiction departments of publications like The Paris Review.

The idea that you have to pay your dues by suffering for years, practically suffocating under the the piles of rejection letters, is archaic.

Forums for authors with traditional publishing aspirations have long been peppered with threads about the query grind, the rejection letters and emails that pile up from agents and publishers, and the desire to quit and give up on the hopes of ever making it as a writer.

Gone are the days of walking to the mailbox and pulling out a pile of rejection letters and wondering if you would ever get published.

Yet, the rapid changes in technology are proving a boon to many struggling authors, disappointed by a growing pile of publishers» rejection letters.

I've been down the submission path myself (and have the pile of rejection letters to prove it).

Years back, a man and his wife came into the RJ Communications» offices with a stack of pictures and a pile of copy and a fist full of rejection letters from traditional publishers.

You could have the most fantastic premise, fabulous plot twists, and a great line - up of characters, but if your writing is full of grammatical mistakes, POV slips, and telling instead of showing, the rejection letters are still going to pile up.

She figured that selling a couple of her books would be better than a pile of rejection letters.

Publishers, responding to a huge influx of inappropriate submissions, dumped books into the slush pile, outsourced the reading of said pile and sent form rejection letters.

Without it, you can be sure that a cover letter will quickly end up in the pile of rejections.