Sentences with phrase «years of rejection letters»

«I went through seven or eight years of rejection letters,» says Stark.

Years of rejection letters had prompted him to go down the independent route with a trilogy of suspense mysteries.

Rebel will look at Salinger's youth, his time spent in conflict during World War II, finding love, enduring loss and years of rejection letters from The New Yorker, which fuelled chronic writer's block but also helped him find his voice.

Not exact matches

After years of writing and working, he submits the manuscript to agents and the rejection letters begin to trickle in.

The letter showed that my rejection of classical theism was something like an elaborated repetition of what Father went through fifty or sixty years earlier.

WISH Academy Executive Director Shawna Draxton, in a letter to families, explained why the district was wrong in its recommendation for rejection and noted that the district «once again mischaracterizes WISH's financial position, just as it did in its recommended rejection of WISH Academy High School earlier this year.

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

I recently dusted off some short fiction and an 80,000 - word novel from 20 years ago (along with a sheaf of form rejection letters.)

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.

It's amazing how through a few tiered, explanatory steps, I was able to bypass years of agent - hunting and letter - sending and rejections.

I ask because a friend of mine just went through nearly 4 years before the book got out there: the author spent a year of query letter rejections before finally landing a literary agent; then it took a year of submissions for the agent to land a publisher; then it took well over a year for the book to get on the publisher's schedule for launch date.

I wrote a book in 2004, collected a bunch of rejection letters from agents to prove that I was a real author, then dropped it in a box in the garage for ten years.

I remember you bringing your (impressively large) box of rejection letters to BayCon one year before you had a pro sale.

Celebrating 20 years of working in the video games industry, Double Fine CEO and LucasArts vet Tim Schafer posted several documents from his time with the sector, including rejection letters from Atari and Hewlett - Packard (he hoped to follow in the footsteps of novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr., who toiled away at General Electric during the day, and wrote short stories at night).

In October of that same year he submitted a rough copy to Broderbund and he's said to have received a one - line rejection letter, «Sorry, your game doesn't fit into our product line; please feel free to submit future products.»

According to Debenham, the unwillingness of the Forest Service to fairly consider tribal and non-tribal energy projects alike is evidenced by 20 rejection letters from the Forest Service received over the last eight years in four states.

NOTE: If you have received a letter of rejection from the insurer's IDR department, the two year time limit will apply.

Competition for graduate positions has always been difficult but with the number of applicants compared to the number of graduate jobs almost doubling in the last two years getting professional help can make the critical difference between getting a job and yet another rejection letter.