To help you progress in your writing endeavors, we are sharing our struggles, triumphs, and lessons learned - with hopes you can shortcut the mud we've had to wade in.
I never completed reading the book Wild by Cheryl Strayed. It was a book that I had purchased for my young twenty-something sister to remind her that there were dangers in the world that she was ignoring. And also hoped my sister could live vicariously through Cheryl's lofty endeavor ...
Read MoreAs a writer I humbly go before you – oh mighty publishing industry
About two years ago, my sis and I finished our MS. We were ready to query. By spring, we’d have an agent. By summer, we’d have a book deal. By the fall, we’d be hot stuff.
But that’s not what happened.
By spring, we’d been rejected eleven times. By summer, we’d received not even a request for more pages. And by the fall, we were dead in the water. Researching agents, querying, and being rejected or receiving nothing at all. So is the life of querying writers...
