It’s official.
Two years ago, I sent out my very first query on Chronicity, my YA fantasy novel. I got a reply within an hour, and I opened it with a strange eagerness to read my very first rejection.
It was a request for a full. I nearly peed my pants.
I heard back from the agent a couple of weeks later. She told me I was a talented writer, and that Chronicity was “quite” a commercial concept. After “much thought” she had decided to pass, but only by the skin of her teeth.
That was two years ago. Since then… nada. And I’m not sure what to make of that. When I had been so prepared for that initial rejection (and I was! truly!), the initial ego boost I got instead made me believe that maybe, just maybe, I had something special on my hands.
Which leaves me wondering… which was the fluke? What happened then? Or what’s happening now? I simply don’t know.
Sometimes I think that it will never happen. That I should give it up, grow up, and move on to more “realistic” goals. But then, inevitably, I think back to that very first query, and that very first response.
And I keep on trying. Because maybe, just maybe, I do have something special on my hands.
I think you should keep trying. I remember how excited you were. Go for it!! Don’t have regrets one day that you didn’t.
Good luck!!