Sam Evren
Troubadour
I did finish. I did submit to agents and publishers. I received oh so many stacks of rejections. I received two individual acceptances from agents who believed in my book.
The first agent to accept it wrote after a month or so to tell me she'd had a death in family and she was leaving on sabbatical. She asked if she could hold on to the book until she was back. I agreed. About a year later, she wrote to tell me she didn't have the business in her any more. She left me to go my merry way.
The next acceptance from an agent ended pretty much the same. "I'll do it," turned into "I'm getting out of this business, good luck."
Bad luck - or really, really weird rejection process? Honestly not sure. Though the first agent had a well established agency. I'd researched her, read interviews and reviews of her agency, but, still, ended up in the same place.
I sat on it for a long time. Until I needed it, really. I drug it out and dusted it off and went back to work trying to polish as best I could. After years of being pushed by people who had already read it to put it on Kindle, that's what I did.
That being said, I am moving on the next book(s) (I take notes for the stories I want to tell but aren't currently in the writing process.) I started before the holiday season, and I'll keep it going until it's finished.
The first agent to accept it wrote after a month or so to tell me she'd had a death in family and she was leaving on sabbatical. She asked if she could hold on to the book until she was back. I agreed. About a year later, she wrote to tell me she didn't have the business in her any more. She left me to go my merry way.
The next acceptance from an agent ended pretty much the same. "I'll do it," turned into "I'm getting out of this business, good luck."
Bad luck - or really, really weird rejection process? Honestly not sure. Though the first agent had a well established agency. I'd researched her, read interviews and reviews of her agency, but, still, ended up in the same place.
I sat on it for a long time. Until I needed it, really. I drug it out and dusted it off and went back to work trying to polish as best I could. After years of being pushed by people who had already read it to put it on Kindle, that's what I did.
That being said, I am moving on the next book(s) (I take notes for the stories I want to tell but aren't currently in the writing process.) I started before the holiday season, and I'll keep it going until it's finished.
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