Quick Post...
Am in an internet café in Cambridge (of the hallowed academic fame). Not much time so will explain all next time I blog. Just to say that life is good and writing is going swimmingly!
I so want to write more but Carly is motioning me from the door. We have to go to a party! Ah, the life of a concerted socialite such as I...
Til tomorrow.
I so want to write more but Carly is motioning me from the door. We have to go to a party! Ah, the life of a concerted socialite such as I...
Til tomorrow.
posted by The Wandering Novelist at 5:54 PM
7 Comments:
So what happened next? Where is the novel?
Are you ever coming back to blogland or have you been abducted by some bespectacled university types? ~Sharon
Just wanted to say good luck, one novelist to another!
I started mine at 23. Three years and 85,000 words later, I am nearly done. The only trick is to just keep writing!
Dear Wandering Novelist,
I've enjoyed looking over your blog, and have provided a link from my blog to yours. Mine is about the experience of a first time novelist.
http://geoffreygates.blogspot.com/
Regards,
Geoff
I'm not sure if this is real or a work of fiction -- I just know I stumbled across it, loved it -- and then realized it has been sitting dormant since January. Ah, the humanity!
I hope you start updating.
Hope for the Hopeless Writer?
As the editor of Authorlink.com, I often see writers become devastated by publishers’ rejections. So, I want to offer a little hope for the hopeless. When I interview New York Times bestselling authors they frequently tell me how many times they have been rejected, and I am always amazed. Most of us believe that those who have made it to the big-time had an easy road.
Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult told me that “a great deal of being a successful writer is in believing in yourself in the face of repeated rejection.” She has been there. Lisa Scottoline, another Times bestselling author, said she went through five years of rejections before becoming published. Bestselling author John Connolly told me he received 70 or 80 agency rejections before being published. Joan Medlicott, author of the famous Covington Series, was rejected 24 times before breaking through. And then there are Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield, co-creators of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series, who were rejected by eight major publishers, and 22 smaller publishers. Their 75 titles have sold more than 80 million copies in 39 languages.
All of these writers agree that perseverance is the key to becoming published. I know! The all-new Authorlink.com, the place where editors, agents and writers get connected, has facilitated more deals for writers than almost any other similar site. So to those of you trying to break into publishing, I say, never, never, never give up! It’s possible to become published! I’d love to hear from you about your own trials and successes.—Doris Booth, Dbooth@authorlink.com.
Hope for the Hopeless Writer?
As the editor of Authorlink.com, I often see writers become devastated by publishers’ rejections. So, I want to offer a little hope for the hopeless. When I interview New York Times bestselling authors they frequently tell me how many times they have been rejected, and I am always amazed. Most of us believe that those who have made it to the big-time had an easy road.
Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult told me that “a great deal of being a successful writer is in believing in yourself in the face of repeated rejection.” She has been there. Lisa Scottoline, another Times bestselling author, said she went through five years of rejections before becoming published. Bestselling author John Connolly told me he received 70 or 80 agency rejections before being published. Joan Medlicott, author of the famous Covington Series, was rejected 24 times before breaking through. And then there are Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield, co-creators of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series, who were rejected by eight major publishers, and 22 smaller publishers. Their 75 titles have sold more than 80 million copies in 39 languages.
All of these writers agree that perseverance is the key to becoming published. I know! The all-new Authorlink.com, the place where editors, agents and writers get connected, has facilitated more deals for writers than almost any other similar site. So to those of you trying to break into publishing, I say, never, never, never give up! It’s possible to become published! I’d love to hear from you about your own trials and successes.—Doris Booth, Dbooth@authorlink.com.
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