Adventures of Querying

[jessicasteiner]

Rejection count: 3.

I'm feeling pretty good about it, though. Over a year ago, I pitched OtherWhere to three people at the Surrey International Writer's Conference, and none of them so much as responded to my email. Since then, I've reworked it heavily, and now I've received three personalized rejections.

I probably have a good number to go, but it feels like...progress?

It still sucks, but I kinda feel like my many, many years of fanfiction writing has given me a fairly thick skin to constructive criticism.

Onwards and upwards!

Comments

[kay_brooke]

But you're out there, doing it! Congratulations, and good luck!

[jessicasteiner]

Thanks! I do feel good about it. One rejection threw me off a bit, because the person had requested a full manuscript sight-unseen and I built it up quite a bit in my mind like a sure thing despite all my efforts. After I got the rejection from her (even though it was a nice, personalized one) I didn't write for a couple of days. But this one didn't throw me off the same way.