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Do professional writers get rejected?

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Julie Falatko
Nov 03, 2022
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M. asks:

Do your stories still get rejected?

YES.

There are a million reasons a manuscript gets acquired (ok, maybe not a million, but many) and just as many reasons a manuscript gets rejected. My gut feeling is that the number one reason a manuscript gets rejected is what might colloquially be termed “not feeling it.” The editor (or my agent) doesn’t conn…

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