This probably isn’t the best idea. Blogging shortly after receiving a quite perfunctory rejection makes a rant rather too tempting. So I’ll keep it short; Children of the Resolution “undoubtedly has merit”, but it isn’t for them. Once again, the phrase “This business is so subjective” was tagged on the end — and whilst I understand and appreciate their position… yes, I’m disappointed and disillusioned…
Children is a very personal novel. It’s not a high concept genre novel, but I still feel that it has something very worthwhile to say and deserves a chance. I have a sneaking suspicion, however, that mainstream publishing just doesn’t want to listen. This rejection is only one opinion, of course, but from a leading agency — one that’s been sympathetic to my work in the past — it doesn’t bode well.
Next, I will therefore be trying Legend Press — a small, dynamic independent that I’ve dealt with in the past. They were extremely encouraging and expressed an interest in reading more work, work that fit their list a little better (which I think Children of the Resolution does.)
Here we go again…
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