Beyond Rejection, Gratefulness

A Writer's Journal Entry

I could rewrite this post for you in different words, the kind that arrive days or weeks after the fact, but I thought I’d share it straight from the unedited pages of my journal. This is my most recent encounter with rejection.

May 7, 2023

My literary agent had the pleasant task this weekend of letting me know that the final two publishers we had submitted to were turning down the opportunity to publish my murder mystery. One of these editors wrote the following: