Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Update: Rejection Dejection
In the couple of hours since I last blogged my querying journey, one agent emailed me for a partial and another for a full. Both are big names for what that's worth...so I am excited and even hopeful. Until, of course, the rejections start rolling in and I crawl away to lick my wounds.
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Crossing my fingers!
I'm going to sacrifice three chocolate Santas in your name to appease the publishing gods.
OK, I have no clue how the publishing world works, but what about Roli?
Sujatha, I think to really make a career as a novelist it's very important (at least to me) to sell my book in the US and/or the UK. And to get a decent shot at it, I need to find an aggressive agent. Since my previous agent and I parted ways, I am back to square one.
Once an agent signs me on, then we proceed to finding publishers. And that's when the real heart-break of rejection begins.
Having a US/UK agent and a deal on this side of the world establishes some long-term credibility that just having a book published in India doesn't do. Of course, I will continue to be in touch with Roli. Don't want to burn any bridges.
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