I've been looking up lists of agents for children's books and writing a nice query letter along with a few pages of
The Adventures of Octopus and Octopie.
Got a lot more responses than I thought I would. Unfortunately they
are all REJECTION letters, but at least they responded. Some even said,
"Don't give up, it's just not my genre". I need to find out how many
time
J.K. Rowling
was rejected before someone took a chance on Harry Potter's first
book. OK, I just googled and Ms. Rowling said she had "loads" of
rejections and they weren't nice. When I emailed
Rich
and to him I was getting quite a few rejection letters, but most nice,
he sent this back in response, :) Rich is a man of few words, but I
took that as encouragement.
I think I'll run a tally on my own website,
www.lottiekateminick.com
of how many rejection letters I get. Then I won't be depressed I'll
just feel like I have new pen pals who won't ever write to me again.
Sounds like a plan.
Check out the Octopus and Octopie blog:
http://www.octopusandoctopie.com/octopus--octopie-blog/rejection-letters
