Sentences with phrase «pile 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

It doesn't matter if you have even considered traditional publishing or have already collected a pile of rejection letters.

Why is Frank McCourt a publishing sensation when the memoirs of thousands of others lie forlorn and forgotten at the bottom of a drawer under a pile of rejection letters?

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