I fearfully opened the email.
It read:
“Dear Daniel, I regret to inform you that we’re not interested in your manuscript. Best of luck finding a suitable publisher.”
I’d been rejected. Again.
I sighed. This feeling was becoming much too familiar.
At least this publisher bothered to take a minute to write me a reply, I thought. Better than the dozens of other publishers who hadn’t even shown me that courtesy.
I had already submitted my manuscript to so many publishers and agents that I’d lost count.
I was on the brink of giving up. A wannabe author can only take so much rejection, right?
My great idea that nobody liked
Months earlier, I’d developed the concept for the book. Its title would be The Happy Student: 5 Steps to Academic Fulfillment and Success.
I had it all planned out.