{"id":22,"date":"2010-04-29T20:06:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T00:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2010-11-08T08:26:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T13:26:27","slug":"pity-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Pity City"},"content":{"rendered":"

My agent got another rejection yesterday for my fantasy novel ZERVAKAN. Once again it was a “positive rejection” — the editor said the book was good, but not great. At least I chose to see it as a positive rejection. The editor could’ve sent a form letter.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I have a four-stage process for dealing with book rejection. <\/p>\n

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  1. Spend an hour in “Pity City” (as a former manager of mine used to say). Whine to my wife that nobody’s ever going to buy the book. Eat salty foods.<\/li>\n
  2. Think about some of the successful authors I admire. J.A. Konrath wrote nine novels<\/a> before he got got picked up by a major publisher. Brandon Sanderson wrote at least seven novels<\/a> before his big break. Now he’s finishing the “Wheel of Time” series, the greatest fantasy epic of my generation.<\/li>\n
  3. Remind myself I’m only on my fourth novel.<\/li>\n
  4. Apply my butt to my chair and finish that fourth novel. Because this will be the one.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This seems to work for me. Your results may vary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My agent got another rejection yesterday for my fantasy novel ZERVAKAN. Once again it was a “positive rejection” — the editor said the book was good, but not great. At least I chose to see it as a positive rejection. The editor could’ve sent a form letter. Anyway, I have a four-stage process for dealing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}