sticky web
Wrong turn said:
What other hope is there for those of us who blindly stumbled into the every sticky PA "web"?
I fell in the web. I got out.
There is hope. I got published after the PA book. I gotta tell ya, every author is unpublished before that first book. To those of you who think I am now pimping our new book, I'm not. If I came away with anything, any morsel, any tidbit, from interviewing the bestselling authors it's they didn't give up.
Nicholas Sparks penned several novels before “The Notebook” was published. Stephen King’s “Carrie” was the fifth novel he’d written. James Patterson’s first mystery was turned down by 31 publishers (and later won an Edgar Award). Mary Higgins Clark’s first story took six years and 41 rejection slips before it was finally published. Her first novel was, as she puts it, “a commercial disaster.” Her second, “Where Are the Children?” was a bestseller. Janet Evanovich’s first three attempts were, in her own words “sucky un-sellable manuscripts.”
Think about it. Rejection is the pits. Arm pits, peach pits, pit and the pendulum take your choice. It is something nearly every author faces.
Your Publish America book (and mine) is neutral. Doesn't help, doesn't hurt. As Jim said, think of it as a manuscript in your desk drawer.
Dee