Sentences with phrase «pile of rejection letters from»

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

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.

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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.

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.