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Posted on March 13, 2022October 8, 2022

Seven literary agents who will never represent you

1. Dinosaur Diana Dinosaur Diana has owned her elite New York agency since before you were born. She drank with Hemingway and shot small furry animals with Faulkner. (Or was it the other way round?) She represents literary estates of three Nobel Prize winners and a dozen Pulitzers. She sits in her corner office reading …

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Posted on January 21, 2022

Rejection II – Turning down acceptances

As a writer, dealing with rejection is something you need to cope with if you want to get published. However, sometimes I found myself in the position where I had to reject an offer and withdraw my story. It didn't happen very often, because when you're new to publishing, you'll jump at every opportunity to …

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Posted on November 10, 2021January 13, 2022

Rejection, Rejection

According to The Grinder, my short fiction stats for this year are: 75 submissions3 acceptances67 rejections And that's pretty average for me. I tend to submit my stories to magazines whose acceptance rates are 1% - 3%. I'm still trying to figure out what kind of stories the editors of those magazines prefer, so there's …

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