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Dealing With Rejection! April 2006 Newsletter - Publishing!Welcome to the Publishing: Dealing With Rejection!April 2006 Write and Publish Fiction Newsletter. March was a great month and I hope this Spring gets everyone in the mood to write so the site will continue to grow as wonderfully as it has. I do want to thank everyone that has dropped me an email and submitted their profiles and suggestions. The following article was inspired by a friend of mine that received rejection after rejection, but despite the continuous barrage of negative proposal responses, they maintained a positive and upbeat attitude throughout. With their awesome approach at dealing with rejection keeping them from giving up, and some help from Write and Publish Fiction, they are moving on with the self-publishing route to get the ball moving on their book. You will hear more about this person in the upcoming months, but for now I'm keeping their name a secret. Welcome new subscribers! There were 32 new subscribers for March 2006. For those of you who don't know how this works, each month I will base the newsletter theme on a new topic concerning writing and publishing fiction. The theme for this month is dealing with rejection. The newsletter format will usually be based on a specific topic, followed by questions and answers asked by my visitors; resources associated with the theme, book of the month, and recommended company that provides services for the selected theme. If you have any topics you would like to see in future newsletters, have any thoughts about dealing with rejection, or if you have an article related to writing or publishing fiction, email them to me and I will incorporate them into the site and newsletter. Again, thank you for subscribing. Jason Moser
Publishing: Dealing With Rejection!Fiction Author 3-28-06 You are finally ready to publish your first novel after years of writing, rewriting, and even more rewriting. The time has come. You are now ready to send off your manuscript to some publishers. But are you really dealing with rejection as well as you think? You spend days getting you book into the correct format, draft up a query letter, and send the letter off to a handful of publishers. Now you wait! In several weeks, you finally receive a few responses letting you know that they are interested in receiving your manuscript for possible a publishing contract. Your spirits are high as you package up your manuscript and mail it off to the interested publishers. Weeks go by and nothing. You try everything you can think of to contain the excitement coursing through your body. Finally, a letter comes in the mail from one of the publishers. You tear it open as though it contains the key to life. Your spirits and the letter both hit the floor at about the same time as you read the words, "We regret to inform you that we cannot accept your manuscript at this time." The letter hurt, but you shake it off; a minor setback, but there's still a few more publishers who haven't responded yet. Every few days you receive another letter, each with the same dismal response. Time and time again, new authors are shot down by a few publishers, their dreams destroyed in a few short sentences, and before they know it, they are dealing with rejection. One time isn't too bad, but after three or four rejection notices, you start to question your own writing as your confidence dwindles to nothing. Skills in dealing with rejection are a must for new and inexperienced writers. But you must prepare yourself mentally each time you submit a manuscript to a publisher. Keeping your confidence at an all time high is the only way to stay motivated as an author. Here's a few ways to help you deal with rejection to get you through the certain feelings of inadequacy you may experience during the process of publishing your book. 1. Use self suggestion to thwart the rejection attack. Write down a few positive and encouraging phrases regarding you and your writing. "I am a great writer!" "Anyone who rejects my book will be missing out on great things to come!" Write down three of four similar phrases applicable to you. Now commit them to memory. Read them aloud in the morning immediately after you wake up. Read them aloud a few times throughout the day as well as right before you go to bed. The more you read them, the more confidence you will build in your subconscious mind and the less likely a rejection letter will crush your dreams. This is a powerful tool suggested by Napoleon Hill in Think & Grow Rich. 2. Get an agent to handle the brunt of the attack for you. Though they do cost a lot, an agent can be your best friend and great buffer. They handle interference between you and publishers, ensuring you maintain your confidence and continue pumping out your books while they press your book on publishers. An agent's job is to find a good publisher to publish your book. They deal with all of the correspondence to and from the publishers and find the right publisher as quickly and painlessly as possible for you. You will never see a rejection note, thus never feel that emotional strain upon your confidence. 3. Self-publishing is a great way for dealing with rejection. If you are capable of formatting your own book, you can self-publish. There really isn't that much to it. It actually takes more time and effort to put your book in manuscript format than it does to format it for actual printing (this includes creating the cover and back page content). The downside to self-publishing is the post publishing efforts may be more time consuming work; you don't get some of the perks of being published by a big name publisher. You do, however, save a lot of money, maximize your royalties, and never, ever get rejected by a publisher (so no dealing with rejection). Improper dealing with rejection can be a make or break aspect of your writing career. There are many ways out there to learn techniques for dealing with rejection so you never give up on your book publishing dreams.
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