Never Give Up

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the enormity of things around you?

Millions of stars...

The Earth and Moon from Mercury

            Millions of books...

I still get that sinking feeling every time I walk into a big bookstore...

It's a tad overwhelming to think that out of all the millions of books, anyone would want to read mine.  And as I continue to send out query letters to agents, and get nothing back but form rejection letters, it only gets worse. 

BUT 

You have to try to overcome the giant obstacles...

                                                                               

AND

 THESE FAMOUS WRITERS DID NOT GIVE UP

Madeline L’Engle’s book, A Wrinkle in Time, was turned down 29 times before she found a publisher.

C.S. Lewis received over 800 rejections before he sold a single piece of writing.

Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind was rejected by 25 publishers.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was rejected 121 times.

Johathan Livingston Seagull was rejected 40 times.

Louis L’Amour was rejected over 200 times before he sold any of his writing.

The San Francisco Examiner turned down Rudyard Kipling’s submission in 1889 with the note, “I am sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just do not know how to use the English language.”

An editor once told F. Scott Fitzgerald, “You’d have a decent book if you’d get rid of that Gatsby Character.”

The Dr. Seuss book, And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street, was rejected for being “too different from other juveniles on the market to warrant selling.”

George Orwell’s Animal Farm was rejected with the comment, “It’s impossible to sell animal stories in the USA.

The manuscript for The Diary of Anne Frank received the editorial comment, “This girl doesn’t, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling which would lift that book above the curiosity level.”

AND FURTHERMORE

THEREFORE

SO

Have a great week,