06.06.2007
I am now at twenty-five rejections without a sale. I don't even know if it's a good or a bad thing - I mean, how many should I expect before my first sale. What's average?
However, I will tell you this, it is pretty fucking frustrating.
I also got this in the rejection email:
So now your story's fate depends on the weather: when it's warm and sunny ... I go for long beach walks, and read in between or in one of the St. Kilda cafe's. When it's raining ... I go to an internet café and send rejections ...
So don't blame your evil editor, blame the weather!
Maybe if it wasn't my twenty-fifth, I'd have a little bit more of a sense of humor about it but since it is, I have to admit that I don't find it terribly funny. I know that editors can - and have a right to - be as capricious as they want to be, but part of me does actually hope that there is a little bit of a meritocracy involved and that weather is not the overriding determining factor.
Whatever...
Like I said, if it wasn't my twenty-fifth, I think I'd find it funny.
So, now I'm obligated to have a Twenty-five Rejections party because I told all my friends that I would. Time and date to be announced.