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cliffsweb | 13:32 Tue 16th Jan 2007 | Body & Soul
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i'm depressed, just got my first rejection on my new novel. sob, weep :0(
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Keep trying!

"If at first you don't succeed, try and try again!"

Good luck. : )

New? So you have been published before?
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no, sadly not, this is my second book, i've not had a breakthrough yet. : 0(
Just hang on in there! Some of the best authors around were rejected many many times before they struck lucky.xx
Indeed, JKRowling's Harry Potter was rejected 12 times.
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hee hee, i've beaten JK Rowling, i had seventeen on my first book, but i put it away and wrote another, i will persevere.
What sort of novel is it? Have you got an agent?
i prayed for u just believe. u will make it one day and i do hope u let us all know. what kind a books u write
How do you go about getting a book published? what if someone rejects it then changes it slightly and publishes it?
Im asking as I want to write a self help book myself but dont know where to start.

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Keep at it there is someone out there that will think wow! I hope you can make it. the best of luck to you.
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its about a small boy who ends up in care
after his father kils his mother and then shoots himself, and about his courage and the relationship he builds with his psychologist.
no drchasuble i dont have an agent, am trying to get one.
nic , no one can publish it wihout permission, they dont have the full manuscript.

get yourself a writers hand book, there have a list of agents and publishers in there.
If this is the career you have chosen then rejection is a part of it. Most creative people in all fields suffer rejection after rejection. You will have to deal with it. Every step backward is a step forward.

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