Comments on: Inspiration for Aspiring Novelists http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/11/21/inspiration-for-aspiring-novelists/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:38:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Keir http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/11/21/inspiration-for-aspiring-novelists/comment-page-1/#comment-85703 Keir Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:36:57 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/11/21/inspiration-for-aspiring-novelists/#comment-85703 Also coincidentally, I’ve written a novel about an unpublished writer, too. Alas, it’s still unpublished.

Maybe we should get together and publish books about unpublished writers. Our audience? Unpublished writers, natch.

Best of luck. I hope to hear about your book again.

]]> By: Pete http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/11/21/inspiration-for-aspiring-novelists/comment-page-1/#comment-85690 Pete Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:47:08 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/11/21/inspiration-for-aspiring-novelists/#comment-85690 By purest coincidence, it’s about an unpublished writer. But the writer character is not, by any stretch of the imagination, based on myself – in fact, he’s almost my diametric opposite.

]]> By: Keir http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/11/21/inspiration-for-aspiring-novelists/comment-page-1/#comment-85659 Keir Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:23:58 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/11/21/inspiration-for-aspiring-novelists/#comment-85659 A number of people have remarked that 15 rejections isn’t that unusual for a first novel, which is true enough. However, I’m guessing that not too many of the hard sells end up on shortlists. Good luck with your book, Pete! What’s it about?

]]> By: Pete http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/11/21/inspiration-for-aspiring-novelists/comment-page-1/#comment-84923 Pete Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:38:32 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/11/21/inspiration-for-aspiring-novelists/#comment-84923 Nice. I’ll thumbtack that article on the wall by my writing desk, right next to the large space I’m clearing for rejection letters for my first novel.

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