Sentences with phrase «rejected by a publisher»

If you make your links too persuasive, too obvious, or too geared toward attracting new traffic, they're liable to be rejected by the publisher — especially at the higher levels.

It includes all of my published writings from 2008 — 2016, some of which were rejected by my publishers because they were too controversial.

You took me safely to my first job at a daily newspaper, to interviews on city streets and pig farms, to the hairdresser on my wedding day, to my first meeting with a publisher, to my parents» house to cry after I was rejected by that publisher, to my first book signing, to Jersey and West Virginia and Nashville and Florida on road trip after road trip, and safely to my driveway just seconds before your timing belt finally went out.

And so, with a fifth child on the way and Italian interior decorators to pay, the writer decides to dash off and self - publish a novella about Christmas — after, of course, being rejected by his publisher, whose dismissive comments about the holiday partly inspire the old cheapskate Scrooge.

Amanda Hocking spent 9 years writing books and getting rejected by publishers.

I recently read a complaint from an artist friend who's cover for a book, (beautiful cover too,) was rejected by the publisher.

Publishers reach for potential strong sellers and insist on relatively high prices, authors rejected by publishers package and promote their own work the way nobody else can and traditional booksellers stress the personal experience.

I was completely rejected by every publisher I sent it to... if I knew then what I knew now, I wouldn't have even queried agents.»

For years, that story — rejected by publishers as too religious — languished on my desk until I published an inspirational novel, Scent of Lilacs.

I have found many wonderful self - pubbed books that have been rejected by publishers, and I think - why?

In the era of traditional publishing, many authors were rejected by publishers or were unable to raise interest in their work.

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Many good writers with marketable book ideas get rejected by publishers only because they have no way to help the book succeed.

In disputing that point, Vinjamuri points to John Kennedy Toole's «A Confederacy of Dunces» which was rejected by every publisher except Robert Gottleib of Simon & Schuster (who also discovered Joseph Heller's «Catch 22»).

There are plenty of works that were initially rejected by publishers only to become bestsllers.

I once heard someone say not to go the indie route until your work was rejected by a publisher only because the work did not fit their current needs.

I could go on and on, but I'll close by mentioning the many, many mainstream - published authors who have, or are currently, self - publishing their back catalogs (which the publisher no longer keeps in print), their more experimental work, and their manuscripts that have been rejected by their publishers for whatever reason.

However, the days when all self - published and micropress books were stuff that was rejected by every publisher on the planet are gone.

Not exact matches

Or, how about J.K. Rowling who was rejected 12 times by publishers and is now one of the richest women on the planet?

1975: Pelican, a small publishing house, publishes Ziglar's first book, See You at the Top after it had been rejected by 30 other publishers.

It's hard to believe that one of the most recognizable names in online publications was once rejected by three dozen major publishers.

Her second book was initially rejected by 36 publishers before being accepted for publication.

His best - selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series was rejected by over 144 publishers before going on to sell over 100 million copies.

Her autobiography was rejected by a number of publishers.

Pretty good for a writer whose first manuscript was rejected by 14 publishers.

Crying for hours after getting rejected by one of the first publishers to seriously consider my book.

A Manchester - based author whose debut novel was initially rejected by British publishers has won one of the world's richest literary prizes.

So far, there's little evidence that scientific publishers have been seriously affected: None of 22 journals or journal publishers contacted by Science has rejected a research paper solely because of libel concerns, for example.

His first children's book was rejected by 43 publishers before a friend published the book for him.

All six publishers of the 7th - and 8th - grade science textbooks rejected last month by the California State Board of Education have submitted changes to meet the state's standards, according to Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig.

This past September, the board rejected the books, submitted by six publishers, on the grounds that they were «watered down.»

The science classes from Calvary were rejected by the UC with a simple form letter, one apparently sent to all schools that proposed to use Christian high - school science textbooks published by the two biggest Christian publishers, A Beka Book and Bob Jones University.

I was rejected by one 300 agents and publishers.

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Legacy publishers don't like to be thought of as «previous» or «outdated», even though they indeed are by any definition, so they reject the term because it conflicts with their personal identities.

It's proved to be the other way around for some authors like Amish Tripathi, who chose to self - publish his first book, The Immortals of Meluha, after having being rejected by nearly 20 publishers.

Self - publishing is being brought into the mainstream against the belief that this segment generally caters to those whose works have been rejected by the traditional publishers.

Initially rejected by many publishers, it was eventually bought by Wynwood...

You'll probably be rejected by a few publishers.

Today, her self - published Gansett Island Series, roundly rejected by traditional publishers, has sold more than 2.5 million ebooks and is still going strong at book 16.

And that doesn't even count the 95 % + whose submissions are rejected by traditional publishers.

Force, a New York Times and USA Today contemporary romance author who has written more than 50 books, was at the forefront of the indie publishing wave in 2010 when she self - published books that had been rejected by traditional publishers.

And authors who were either ignored or rejected by traditional publishers can now publish their own books through those self - publishing options.

A little more than 18 months ago in March 2009, I was an unpublished author whose latest thriller manuscript had been rejected by 25 publishers.

In some cases, it's not the author's choice as good books are rejected by traditional publishers ALL THE TIME.

I saw writers out there struggling to find freelance work and getting rejected over and over again by publishers and agents who saw no potential in their books.

According to an article in The Bookseller, author Douglas Preston informed Publisher's Weekly about the offer from Amazon, but said that it has already been rejected by Authors United, the group which penned the open letter and has promised a forthcoming letter to be published as a full - page ad in the New York Times.

While still taking submissions of manuscripts — often unagented submissions, which has been attractive to authors who've been rejected by the first level of gatekeeper to the industry — the numbers of rejected manuscripts from these new publishers are surprisingly low.

The Looking Glass Warswas rejected by every major publisher in the U.S..

This is by no means the average, and it was also doubly awkward when publishers I was working with started rejecting my book.