I made my first submission before xmas and it was rejected soon after. It wasn't surprising and didn't bother me much but I had hoped getting over the first submission and rejection would encourage me to go on. That hasn't been the case. More and more I find myself wanting to go it alone. Submitting my book to publishers actually feels wrong. And the only time my gut has ever been wrong is when it's said yes to an oversized chocolate fudge cake!
I just keep thinking this series has a different destiny. This particular book isn't meant to join the same race everyone else and if anything the wording of my rejection said the same... although perhaps I'm seeing what I want to see.
Comments anyone?
Hi Victoria,
First of all, congratulations on getting your MS submission ready. This is, in itself, a major milestone, and one that I have yet to cross (almost there though).
From your own comment, it seems to me that you have a very clear idea about the direction you want your series to take, and a strong intuition that going it alone is what will work best for you, and your books.
Perhaps publishing the first in the series, to test the water, is the way to go.
Experience from this can then inform any future decision as to whether or not to continue in this way or to use the reactions to the first in the series as a way to promote your series to publishers.
If the latest rejection letter indicated something similar - that your series could work as a self-published work, then this may suggest your intuition is correct.
In any case, keep on striving and enjoy writing.
Jen