REJECTION!!!!!

Hope you're not opposed to the color "orange." I chose it for Autumn, pumpkin pie and turkey!

Here it is November already and we're on a fast approach for Thanksgiving Day. Happy turkey day, y'all! I've decided to have a quiet day this year -- just Jeremy and me... and the bird. No additional family or extended family. In year's past when everyone left, I have made a silent, but solemn promise to myself that "next year I'm NOT hosting Thanksgiving; I'll be going to Fiji!" So far, that hasn't happened. Fiji, that is.

In my last post, I had just hit "send" of my query to two possibilities. That was a Friday. On Sunday afternoon, I received my first REJECTION letter. Wow! It zinged me between my eyes, and my stomach dropped to my toes. I was... ummm... "out of sorts" for the rest of the evening.

On Monday morning I was able to pick myself up, dry myself off, and start all over again. In case you don't know it, those are words to a song. It's a lilting melody. But, I digress, or at least stall. So, the first rejection is over. There will be more, I'm sure. We all face rejections in our lives and we deal with them. Maybe the next one won't pack such a wallop.

In my agent/publisher research, I have discovered that many agents/publishers want a synopsis with the query. Some will accept by email; some want snail mail. All their guidelines are different. Oy vey! I get bleary-eyed just trying to find out what they all want. Writing my story was EASY compared to this.