Oh well...

[axeslade]

Dear Alicia,
Thank you for letting us look at sample material from your book. We appreciate the time and creative energy you have put into your work. Your submission has been read by at least two of our members of our staff. I'm sorry to tell you that, after careful consideration, we have decided that your book does not meet our needs.

We thank you for thinking of Swimming Kangaroo Books and hope you will keep us in mind for future submissions.

*sigh*

EDIT: Looking over that letter this morning...

Your submission has been read by at least two of our members of our staff.

Am I the only one who finds that redundent? And if that's spelled wrong, gimme a break, it's not even six a.m yet.

Comments

[bitexmarks.livejournal.com]

even the best of authors have been regected about a thousand times before they actually got a book deal, dont give up hun, this is just a glitch in your pathway to stardom.
bitexmarks

[axeslade.livejournal.com]

even the best of authors have been regected about a thousand times before they actually got a book deal

I keep reminding myself that F.X. Toole, who wrote the short story collection containing Million Dollar Baby recieved rejection letters for forty years before he finally got published. *sigh* Thanks babes.