I've been trying to find an agent for Honeysuckle Rage and the Everlasting Tree for nearly two years now. In that time, I’ve become utterly convinced that my bright, shining, lovely novel that I thought everyone would like was a piece of trash. But reading this blog by Grant P. Hudson has made me rethink my despondency. Are agents rejecting my work because they think the story is BAD or do they just not LIKE it? Because the difference is huge. What worries me is that agents/publishers/editors only look for work that they like: they’re not judging the stories on their actual merit.
This doesn’t really change anything in the long run – I have to keep approaching agents until one of them either LIKES my work or is able to judge its merit with a cool head and decide that it’ll make mega-bucks (which is ultimately all that counts in the long run.)
But at the very least, it’s more comforting to think that my work DOES have merit that hasn’t been recognised yet than go about convinced that everything I write is rubbish.
https://www.clarendonhousebooks.com/post/why-you-should-avoid-opinionated-editors
This doesn’t really change anything in the long run – I have to keep approaching agents until one of them either LIKES my work or is able to judge its merit with a cool head and decide that it’ll make mega-bucks (which is ultimately all that counts in the long run.)
But at the very least, it’s more comforting to think that my work DOES have merit that hasn’t been recognised yet than go about convinced that everything I write is rubbish.
https://www.clarendonhousebooks.com/post/why-you-should-avoid-opinionated-editors
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