#165. How To Interpret Agent Rejections (& What To Do Next)

Fiction Writing Made Easy

Savannah Gilbo

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🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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It’s no secret that one of the biggest roadblocks to getting traditionally published is the dreaded literary agent rejection. But to find the right literary agent for you and your story, you have to go through the process of querying a handful of agents—which means you should expect to get a handful of rejections before finding your perfect match.In this episode, I’m sharing the three most common literary agent rejection scenarios and, more importantly, what you can do in each scenario to tak...

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