The 10 REAL Reasons Your Book Was Rejected: A Big 5 Editor Tells All
by Ruth Harris
I’m an Amazon #1 and million-copy NYT bestselling author published by Random House, Simon & Schuster and St. Martin’s. I was also an editor for over 20 years. I worked at Macmillan, Dell and Bantam and for a small but thriving independent paperback house, now defunct—not because of me. 🙂 I was also the Publisher of Kensington.
I’ve been the rejector and the rejectee which means rejection is a subject I know a bit about. So let me cut rejection down to size.
Manuscripts get rejected; not writers.
It’s business and (most of the time) it’s not personal.
The reasons for rejection start with the basics, i.e. the ms. sucks. Author can’t format/spell/doesn’t know grammar or punctuation. S/he is clueless about narrative, characterization, plotting, pacing, and can’t write dialogue. S/he has apparently never heard of paragraphing and writes endlessly long, meandering, incoherent sentences that ramble on like poison ivy. You cannot believe the grotesqueries I encountered during my days in the slush pile.
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Thank you goes out to Author D.G. Kaye @pokercubster for tweeting this article. Her site is dgkayewriter.com
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Really interesting!
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Reblogged this on Shirley McLain and commented:
Useful info.
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Glad you enjoyed Ruth’s post, Ronovan. And thanks for the mention. 🙂
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