99 literary agents!….
Come on, sing it with me now!
Over the past several months, I’ve become a big fan of the blog Literary Rejections on Display, partly because the rejections all look so familiar (it’s nice to know we’re not alone in the long, good fight to share great literature, isn’t it?) but also partly because the blog’s (anonymous) author has been so open about her/his struggle to wrap up a book, land an agent, find a publisher, become famous (though still anonymous?). If you read the blog long enough, the work starts to feel epic. It’s like my own career as a writer is on the line, and in a way, it is, because the LRoD author is in there fighting for all of us, and if he/she can land a big break, then there’s still hope in the land of literature.
Ladies and gentlemen: There is still hope!
It took 99 agents to get there, but our fearless, anonymous pen-warrior might finally have landed a break! So grab a bottle of whatever you choose from off the wall, pass it around, and three cheers for quality writing.
Samuel Snoek-Brown 