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Reason #08: Your Book Is Too Extreme
An Editorial Team reason for rejection OK, I’m not making this up. One day I was sorting through the mail for Nappaland Literary Agency and I came upon a pitch from some now-nameless author. I opened the envelope and discovered it was a proposal for a book on the topic of abstinence. Now, I’m all […]
Reason #52: My Marketing VP Doesn’t Care About Your Topic—And Doesn’t Think Anyone Else Will Either
A Marketing Team reason for rejection Elizabeth Gilbert has made gobs of money—and generated a huge amount of media coverage—with her memoirs Eat, Pray, Love and Committed. That means your memoir of transformative living should have equal appeal to a publisher, right? Wrong. Because, despite the documented, exceptional success of people like Gilbert or James […]
I don’t know anything about Zerubbabel—who was he?
Scripture: Ezra 3-4 What happens when a nation is conquered, burned to the ground, and left in rubble? When its wealthiest and most prominent citizens are carried off as slaves and dispersed into a powerful foreign country? Well, if the experience of the Jewish people is any indication, those left behind cobble together an impoverished […]
Mikey’s Top 20 Dad Lectures
Somebody asked me last week for parenting advice from a veteran Dad. I didn’t have much advice to give (sorry!). But if anyone knows my son, and is interested, here’s what he heard repeatedly from Dad for most of his growing-up life… “Mikey’s Top 20 Dad Lectures” 1. No one speaks to my wife that […]
Reason #54: You Are Not A Celebrity
A Sales Team reason for rejection Wow, this reason for rejection is so unfair. And it’s not even legitimate, really. Lots of celebrities write books that never crack a bestseller list and which shouldn’t have been published to begin with. Nonetheless, I have on several occasions sat in a room with a group of salespeople […]
