Forum / You know you've been rejected when...

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  James Lloyd Davis

  Aug 12, 01:03pm

  This is taking literary rejection to another level altogether:

  http://www.austin360.com/movies/police-explode-briefcase-left-for-literary-agent-1728294.html

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  Susan Tepper

  Aug 12, 03:07pm

  ha ha!

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  Joani Reese

  Aug 12, 05:42pm

  Dang! The least they could have done was stated the poor guy's name in the article. He would have gotten his fifteen minutes. Perhaps now he has a story worth optioning.

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  W.F. Lantry

  Aug 13, 06:29am

  As my father used to say, to show he thought little of some work: "That ain't worth the powder to blow it to hell!" I guess, in this case, the script *was* worth the powder... ;)

  Hope he had another copy!

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  Susan Tepper

  Aug 13, 06:16pm

  I had 2 novel ms. rejected by close to 100 agents. I had the same 2 novels circulate HarperCollins Books for close to three years and go thru 4 editors there. Each editor either quit or got fired. The 4th editor there just didn't want the books. Claimed they were "too deeply nuanced" for her. I thought that was the point of literary fiction-- go figure. Basically we just have to keep plugging.

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  Robert Vaughan

  Aug 15, 12:07am

  Rejection gives us much fodder for inspiration, work and more stories.

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