Sentences with phrase «with rejection slips»

He had a wall filled with rejection slips before he finally got his first novel published.

I sent my first book to every Christian publisher and they all were returned with rejection slips.

The road to seeing it in print was stony and littered with rejection slips.

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Here is an agency - by - agency breakdown of where the pink slips are headed following the rejection of a labor agreement with the Public Employees Federation.

The most innovative, exciting work now is coming from the REAL small publishers — the ones with the REAL editors, and, especially, the REAL rejection slips.

Those are the blues that can overwhelm the unpublished / underpublished novelist as we slog away, year after year, with nothing to show for our life's work but a mini-Kilimanjaro of rejection slips.

With my interest in the novel rekindled (no pun intended), I penned a dark tale of lust, obsession and betrayal titled, The Butterfly Collector, and sent it round UK agents and publishing houses, collecting over 75 rejection slips in the process.

As well, my concern as a professionally published author is that aggressive marketing (TV commercials, Youtube trailers, fancy websites etc.) are creating a successful viral marketing paradigm for self - pubbed fiction that has the potential to impact trad publishing & leave writers wondering «why bother with the arduous and often heartbreaking process of queries, rejection slips, the endless waiting, etc. when the neighbor simply threw up a website, hired a gang of marketing professionals and bingo, Neil Gaiman is reviewing their book before it's even published?!»

These were the same people who were bittered by the rejection slips they recieved or were unhappy with their publisher.

Let's say no agents liked your deathless prose, alas, and you ended up with one of those badge - of - honor piles of rejection slips and an intense interest in sharing my Campari.

I fully understand the desperate struggle of targeted parents seeking a solution, as you feel your relationship with your child slipping away into a nightmare of distortions, hostility, and rejection.