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Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:08:02 +0000

[...] send my writing to other blogs and newspapers. There were the inevitable rejections (it’s a writer’s rite of passage) but I took heart from what I’d written about having grit and kept on trying until I [...]

By: Annabel Candy

Annabel Candy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:50:33 +0000

Lucky you!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:15:25 +0000

I have beautiful home in Granada for rent or sale.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:55:44 +0000

ARE published not IS published… sorry to all you proof-readers out there

By: Teresa

Teresa — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:52:02 +0000

Just remember Harry Potter was rejected a bunch of times! You HAVE to have rejection letters so you can have them hanging in your 15th downstairs bathroom when your collection of books is published by a company who understands today’s market like you

By: Andy MacGregor

Andy MacGregor — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:44:38 +0000

Yes, id expect a lot of rejections before you get into the groove. If you get on with the old boy at the local paper, im sure he will publish something soon if you keep badgering him in a friendly way !

By: Annabel Candy

Annabel Candy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:31:26 +0000

Oh yes, me too. In the back of my mind I think that’s why I’m reluctant to finish my book properly. It’d be easier to say that I wrote a book but never quite finished it than that I spent 800 hours working on a book over the course of a year and no one wanted to publish it! Yikes…

By: Eric Richardville

Eric Richardville — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:26:36 +0000

All great stuff, not the rejection part, sorry for that. I know it will all work out for you. I am working on a book that is taking forever. I hope all this work isn’t for nothing.

By: Annabel Candy

Annabel Candy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:50:27 +0000

Muchas gracias:) Bring it on!

By: Jaz

Jaz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:46:38 +0000

Well done Annabel! I think you’re on the right track. Of course you’re going to get rejection letters! That’s all part of the journey. Otherwise it wouldn’t be as exciting when one of your fabulous articles IS accepted!
I particularly loved this part of your blog post:
“I’ve promised to rewrite my travel article on Granada as per his suggestions and hope that I can make it to his liking this time. In my mind I’m thinking of it as my first commissioned piece even though as my dear hubby pointed out the editor doesn’t know that.”
I think that sums up your way of thinking – and I think it’s that type of thinking that is going to make you a VERY successful writer!!