Rejection

You've spent all this time on the nest, nourishing your baby with your own blood, sweat and tears. You've suffered aches and pains, loss of sleep, shortness of breath, a fragile temper until finally - BIRTH! You've delivered a bouncing baby manuscript. You've given it a bath, changed its diaper, dressed it all up in pretty clothes and sent it out into the world.

Of course, after you've sent it out for appraisal, you realize there are holes in the clothes, stains in the diaper and you forgot to wipe its chin. No matter, it's still a beautiful baby.

That's your opinion. It's the job of agents and editors to tell you what they see as the sad truth.

Your baby is ugly.

What parent wants to hear their precious bundle has warts?  If you want to make the journey into publishing, you'll need to hear it again and again.

And that's what this blog is about. Hearing your baby is ugly is part and parcel of becoming published. So is believing that you're right and all those rejections are wrong, though you'll still need to have open ears. A willingness to wipe off the drool when someone points it out is important if you ever want them to hold your prospective tyke.

We'll be discussing our journey along the road to becoming authors - honest to goodness, published folk. We'll try to keep it honest, to show you where our babies get their big noses and crooked toes. We'll also show you the beautiful heads of hair and straight limbs we hope some lucky agent will notice.