A very nice rejection...alas
Sep. 1st, 2007 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clarentineThe agent who'd requested a partial of Cavalier Attitude sent me a rejection this week. It's never fun to get those envelopes you've addressed and stamped, hoping never to have them come back, and I regretted seeing this one (not least because I really do think Cavalier is the strongest book I've written thus far). Alas. But it was a very nice, very helpful rejection letter, and I appreciate the kindness that went into its composition.
"While the tone, flow, and voice hit all the right notes for me, Cavalier runs the risk of being sub-categorized to death - a fantasy novel, a high fantasy novel, a gay novel (and more, a novel about gay love and its proscription) - which I fear would limit its audience from the start. I simply can't be confident that you'll find publication at a trade publisher; it's the sort of project that would do quite well at a small press, and it doesn't suit my time or yours to involve me in the hunt for the right place."
Good thing I got today's words in before the mail came. I have a feeling I'll be mulling over that bit about small press publication for quite a while.
"While the tone, flow, and voice hit all the right notes for me, Cavalier runs the risk of being sub-categorized to death - a fantasy novel, a high fantasy novel, a gay novel (and more, a novel about gay love and its proscription) - which I fear would limit its audience from the start. I simply can't be confident that you'll find publication at a trade publisher; it's the sort of project that would do quite well at a small press, and it doesn't suit my time or yours to involve me in the hunt for the right place."
Good thing I got today's words in before the mail came. I have a feeling I'll be mulling over that bit about small press publication for quite a while.
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Date: 2007-09-01 11:32 pm (UTC)He is the wizarding Count of Monte Cristo. Plus, y'know, Gary Oldman.
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Date: 2007-09-01 11:36 pm (UTC)Dumas
Date: 2007-09-02 12:13 am (UTC)It was lost for over a century, until discovered recently, unfinished. The French publication was a big bestseller. Just the blurb sounds wonderful.
Re: Dumas
Date: 2007-09-02 12:51 am (UTC)