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Today's blog is dedicated to all those pre-published authors out there. Whether you're working on your first manuscript, or have a dozen finished and are afraid to send them out, or whether you're diligently finishing, polishing, and submitting manuscripts only to have the SASEs come back with those dreaded words "Thank you for sending us your manuscript; however, after careful consideration we're going to have to pass." Even published authors get rejections. It's true. Don't think it's so? Oh yeah, it is. Whether it's a request to revise and rework, or whether it's a "not for us" or even a proposal that never got off the ground, just because you have your name on the cover of a book or on the cover of two-dozen, doesn't mean that you're not going to get rejected. It happens. And just like those of you out there, we shrug, grin (sometimes through our tears), and go on with the next project, the next submission. There are classes out there on dealing with rejection. Next month, the League of Midwest Writers (http://www.lomw.org/) will be hosting a class on battling rejection blues. And I strongly encourage EVERY author to take one or a dozen of these classes. Handling rejection can be tough. But, it's part of being a writer. For members of RWA (Romance Writers of America) they have a PRO program. One of the requirements to be a PRO member means that you've submitted a manuscript and received a rejection. You know, I sure wish they had the PRO status back when I started out. It's a great resource, one that you get to only if you have the courage to face rejection. The important thing is to keep going. Keep submitting. Keep writing! All a rejection means is that at that particular moment in time, a particular story didn't resonate (or resonated for the wrong reasons) with a single reader. It's like trying the new Chinese restaurant in town. You love sesame chicken so you order it. But, whether it's the spices or the way it was cooked, or something, it just didn't taste as good as it usually did. You decide not to go back to that restaurant. You decide to try to eat someplace else next time. So, too with the rejections. Your story didn't quite work. Another one might. It's not about you personally. Just some words on the paper, and like the newspaper, not everyone is going to like everything they read. We're all so individual it makes sense really. The romance novel I love may not be the one you love. I might like a bit more sex, someone else might want their novel with a large dose of spiritual faith, someone else may prefer more suspense, and yet another reader wants to be taken away to some far flung period in history. The cool thing is -- there are books out there for all of us. So when you get that dreaded letter back in the mail. Do what you need to do. Then get back to writing. And think, that favorite author of yours, she's been rejected too. Then send off another manuscript. Rinse. Repeat. Persevere.  
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