Hearing no

For more than 15 years, I’ve made my way through the fiction writing world and I’ve seen a lot of changes. I’ve heard yes a number of times from publishers, editors and agents. But there’s always that “no” that comes down the pike. The first “no” I heard came in 1999, a one-page typed letter from an acquisitions editor. This came several weeks after she requested the whole 45,000-word manuscript after I’d mailed her a proposal in a big, fat United States Post Office envelope. This was in the old days, before proposals were sent electronically.

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