Check out this article on how to handle the rejections that are a part of every writer’s life. Mark McGuinness has a background as a psychotherapist before becoming an author’s coach, so his advice is founded in longstanding theories and practices.
Joan Gelfand recently shared this:
According to Writer’s Relief, the writer’s submission service, the average writer has a 4% acceptance rate. A good writer has a 10% rate and if you’re really lucky 20% and higher.
This essay provides 5 tips for handling rejection letters. They range from honoring your very real emotional response to moving on to the next opportunity.
This is a very short essay about one author’s experience marketing her book after a traditional publisher picked it up. Although she’s a children’s book author, the core of her experience is pretty common.
Most important lesson:
Publishing is a business and books are products. Help buyers understand why they should purchase your product over someone else’s.
Here’s a listing of calls for submissions from The Review Review.
Writers League of Texas “Agents & Editors” Conference, June 21-23, Austin, TX
Features many literary agents, editors and authors.
Words in 3 Dimensions Writers Conference, May 24-26, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Features sessions, authors, agents and editors.
PennWriters Conference, May 17-19, Pittsburgh, PA
This event, the state’s largest conference, will have multiple literary agents in attendance taking pitches.
Kentucky Writers Conference, April 19, Bowling Green, KY
This is a free one-day writers conference with sessions on how to get published. It precedes the Southern Kentucky Book Fest (April 20).
Writer’s Digest Writers Conference East, April 5-7, New York, NY
60-80 literary agents will be taking pitches at the Agent Pitch Slam. Editors and authors will be teaching sessions on how to write better and get published.
San Francisco Writers Conference, Feb. 15-18, San Francisco, CA
This event features approximately 20 agents as well as many successful authors. WD editor Chuck Sambuchino is teaching a special intensive on blogging & Twitter on Feb. 18.
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