The 2,000,000th post game

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Oh awesome great another rejection

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I'm gonna be thirty and have like five books written that no ****er wants

Bardock42 Junior Member

How many rejections have you had so far?

NewLanceWindu Keeper of the Prophecy

Self publish.

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5 or 6 so far. I'm just being pessimistic really, it's normal to get rejected that many times, really. Just gotta keep plowing on with it.

Piggle Humsy Wiggle4life
Originally posted by The Pict
Reported crackers

I'm gonna hunt you down and kill you uhuh

Bardock42 Junior Member
Originally posted by Scribble
5 or 6 so far. I'm just being pessimistic really, it's normal to get rejected that many times, really. Just gotta keep plowing on with it.

Yeah, you should get worried at like 50 or 60.

Piggle Humsy Wiggle4life
Originally posted by Scribble
5 or 6 so far. I'm just being pessimistic really, it's normal to get rejected that many times, really. Just gotta keep plowing on with it.

Yeah my sister got a load of rejections and gave up but you shouldn't do that. Keep going! awecool

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Originally posted by NewLanceWindu
Self publish.
It costs a lot to properly self-publish (i.e. printing actual books), and without the money to fund the marketing, self-publishing an e-book is basically just uploading the book to the internet. Nobody would find it, and often publishers won't take self-published works, so I'd have no way back.

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Originally posted by Bardock42
Yeah, you should get worried at like 50 or 60.
I don't even know if there are that many publishing agents in the UK mhmm or at least ones that would consider my novel based on genre
Originally posted by Piggle Humsy
Yeah my sister got a load of rejections and gave up but you shouldn't do that. Keep going! awecool
Thanks Hums, and I will, don't you worry majors

The Pict Defender Of The Faith
Originally posted by Piggle Humsy
I'm gonna hunt you down and kill you uhuh

shock

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Still have a couple of places to hear back from, then I'll send it to another set of agents I guess. Don't want to send it to too many at once. Don't know why. Fear of rejection? Possibly

Piggle Humsy Wiggle4life
Originally posted by The Pict
shock

awecgun

NewLanceWindu Keeper of the Prophecy

A couple buddies of mine self published their first novel. Started with ebook but had physical copies a month later. They've sold a couple hundred now just from word of mouth.

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That's pretty awesome, but I'm assuming they have at least some degree of money. Or networking skills, for that matter.

NewLanceWindu Keeper of the Prophecy

They work at Target, so they are poor. 😂 As far as networking, I believe it was just posting links on their Facebook.

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That's impressive, major props to them. What kind of a book is it?

But yeah, as for networking, I'm so inept that posting pretty anything on Facebook is a no-go for me. Besides, I only have a hundred-odd people on there. I've sent my novel to all the people who've been interested in it, or offered to send it to anyone I thought would be interested. Aaaaand how many have read it?

None. Aside from my parents and this one friend I had, who is not a friend any more (due to totally unrelated circumstances).

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Tbh when you pour your heart and effort into something and even your best and/or lifelong friends can't be bothered to read it then what the **** are the chances of anybody else caring?

I should probably give up already, it's a dying art.

Piggle Humsy Wiggle4life

Originally posted by Scribble
That's impressive, major props to them. What kind of a book is it?

But yeah, as for networking, I'm so inept that posting pretty anything on Facebook is a no-go for me. Besides, I only have a hundred-odd people on there. I've sent my novel to all the people who've been interested in it, or offered to send it to anyone I thought would be interested. Aaaaand how many have read it?

None. Aside from my parents and this one friend I had, who is not a friend any more (due to totally unrelated circumstances).

I wanna read it, but I know I won't.

Reading that post was a struggle, my brain just can't focus for long enough these days.

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Originally posted by Piggle Humsy
I wanna read it, but I know I won't.

Reading that post was a struggle, my brain just can't focus for long enough these days.

See, I totally respect this: you know you won't end up reading it and have the decency not to get my hopes up. This is probably what everyone else is like, but they say they really want to read it and will like totally start reading it next week, but they won't.