Reject!

I got rejected the other day for my series mystery, Digging Up Bones. I wasn't surprised because it went to a fairly small library press and they came back and said that they enjoyed it but their market is extremely narrow and I didn't fit into the niche. Does that sound like a stock rejection to you? I don't know. I don't mind getting rejected, it happens to the best of us, but I hate getting stock rejections.

Now, because it is sort of a chick-lit cozy, the kind only published by larger presses, I'm going to have to go on the big hunt for an agent. More's the pity, it was something I never wanted to do. And I don't even know why. It's not like I dislike or resent agents. I think it was just the idea of adding yet another step to the publication process that irritated me. But frankly, I don't know what else to do with this story. The kinds of places that would publish this one don't accept unsolicited manuscripts. Alas.

Anyway, anyone know any good agents? I take recommendations.

Song of the day-Loser, Beck. In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey. And our market is too narrow to publish monkeys.

Quote of the day-

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats
English lyric poet (1795 - 1821)

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