True Story

[Jadie Jones]

I've been querying my fingers off. Five months, forty-some-odd rejections. Okay, fourty-seven. Last night I dreamed literary agent Mary Kole knocked on my door and wanted to talk about my submission, that she first needed to take a look around, see how I lived. That in order for her to offer a contract she expected an organized kitchen pantry. I scurried ahead of her, kicking clutter under furniture and swiping at dusty surfaces, all the while failing to convince her that by some gross oversight the contractor had forgotten to include a pantry in the floor plan of my house.

[Jadie Jones]

Thank you Bill Lapham! I wish I'd found this site before I drafted the manuscript. I feel like I'm already making myself write leaner and meaner. This is such a fantastic forum.

[Jadie Jones]

@Bill - thank you for the support! If you have any words of wisdom I am all ears (or eyes, whatever the case may be...)

[Bill Floyd]

It's an excruciating time for you, then, but if you've actually finished writing something you're well ahead of most people who talk about it but never do it.  I'll be wishing you the very best of success!

 

[Jadie Jones]

@Bill - Thank you for the words of encouragement! Two smaller publishers have asked for fulls and are reviewing them as we all type, so my fingers are crossed.

[Bill Floyd]

Keep at it.  When I was looking for an agent, I quit counting at thirty rejections.  But I found one.  Six years and five novels later, I actually published one.  Five years and five more novels after that, I'm still hunting the second publication, but at least the pantry is in order...

[Jadie Jones]

Thanks y'all! I really did have that dream. It made me laugh when I woke up, so I figured I'd share it.

[Stephen Torelli]

No time for scrubbing when you're writing. Nice account.

[Andre DeCuir]

Really liked this.  I think you put forward a situation all of us writers can identify with!

[Joey Delgado]

Nice! Really like the 'okay, forty-seven...' correction. Nice bit of humor. Thank heaven editors don't look into writer's homes as part of the signing process, I think we tend to be a messy bunch...