This one hurts. A lot.
I was talking to a dream agent, who had called me ON THE PHONE and I was waiting patiently until I wasn’t. So I emailed them again and mentioned that I was also working in this other genre…at which point they said “I don’t rep that. Let me step aside.”
I want to scream and beg and say, “No, no, I was just kidding. It doesn’t matter. I will give up that other genre for you. I have plenty of books in me, in areas you do rep. I really wanted someone to tell me where to focus anyway!”, but I don’t think that is how this works.
So I’m licking my wounds. And trying not to let it stall me.
Insert silent scream here.
Project: Non-Fiction book proposal
Submitted: April 2018
Passed: July 2018
In other news, it strikes me that it has taken me 5 years to rack up fewer than 40 rejections. It was supposed to be a one-year thing. This tells me I am not sending out nearly enough material and I’m letting each rejection get me down and stall me for too long. Time to up the pace. (Sent out another story today)
Non-Fiction