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So, question while I consider my options.
Here's the story: I wrote a novel and sold it to a medium-sized primarily ebook-focused romance publisher. It's done pretty well, selling decently and garnering a fair amount of critical acclaim in places like PW and RT Book Reviews.
I write a sequel. It gets rejected. I'm like, okay, and I basically rewrite it from scratch. It gets rejected again. The cited issues (I don't agree with the editor, but that's neither here nor there) are too large to be easily fixed without doing basically the same thing again a third time (which, yes, is technically an option). I genuinely think it's a good book, but I really am at a bit of a loss regarding what to do with it now. It's been recommended to me that I consider self-pubbing, and that's definitely an option as well, but it's not a very feasible one right now for a bunch of reasons, and it wouldn't be my first choice, though I realize I'm not exactly in a position to be picky.
So I guess I'm wondering about the likelihood of being able to sell this thing elsewhere - which I know is not high, but I'm trying to get a sense of just how low "not high" is while I think about what's next.
Thanks and argh.
Here's the story: I wrote a novel and sold it to a medium-sized primarily ebook-focused romance publisher. It's done pretty well, selling decently and garnering a fair amount of critical acclaim in places like PW and RT Book Reviews.
I write a sequel. It gets rejected. I'm like, okay, and I basically rewrite it from scratch. It gets rejected again. The cited issues (I don't agree with the editor, but that's neither here nor there) are too large to be easily fixed without doing basically the same thing again a third time (which, yes, is technically an option). I genuinely think it's a good book, but I really am at a bit of a loss regarding what to do with it now. It's been recommended to me that I consider self-pubbing, and that's definitely an option as well, but it's not a very feasible one right now for a bunch of reasons, and it wouldn't be my first choice, though I realize I'm not exactly in a position to be picky.
So I guess I'm wondering about the likelihood of being able to sell this thing elsewhere - which I know is not high, but I'm trying to get a sense of just how low "not high" is while I think about what's next.
Thanks and argh.