I never thought I was walking away permanently. I didn’t think I could take this heartache anymore on top of starting a new job as a freelance copyeditor, buying and renovating my first house, and most importantly, taking care of the baby. Normally I would have taken a deep breath, rewritten my query letter, and sent manuscripts out again-or started a new book. And everything hurts a million times worse when you’re pregnant. A near miss hurts because you were almost there, but now, you’re not. The manuscript had made it all the way to the editorial board meeting, the last step in saying yes, before they said no.Ī good rejection hurts because a real person is turning you down, not an uninhabited address in New York.
This particular good rejection said that the YA market was abysmal, but if the market had been better, the publisher would have bought my novel. A good rejection is one in which the editor writes you a personal letter rather than sending you a form letter and praises your work before dashing your hopes into tiny, sharp pieces. In 2001, I received a “good rejection” from a major YA publisher for my seventh manuscript. Read on as Jennifer Echols reveals how she went through her turning point on February 14, eight years ago… 99-in which I asked authors the question: What was your turning point as a writer? I’m honored and excited to host their stories. She's crushed on him for years, but always known he's out of her league isn't he? As the summer rolls on and they spend more time together the spark between them grows, but with Alec's feelings starting to change too, suddenly things become a whole lot more complicated.This guest post is part of the Turning Points blog series here on distraction no. So when Grayson makes it clear that he wants her to stay working for him, Leah doesn't understand why. The two brothers have always made their hostility towards her clear so she's sure that her dreams of being a pilot are over Then Mr Hall dies suddenly leaving his teenage sons, golden boy Alec and adrenaline junkie Grayson, in charge of running the business. So when her flight instructor, Mr Hall, hires her to fly for his banner advertising business, she sees it as her ticket out of the trailer park.
While she's in the air, it's easy to forget life with her absentee mother at the low-rent end of a South Carolina beach town. High school senior Leah Jones loves nothing more than flying.
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