A field guide to common rejections we see from publishers

Not all of them are avoidable, so go easy on yourself.

Even the most successful literary agents deal with rejection every day. We reach out to authors who turn out to have an agent already—BOO. (No but yay for them.) We vie for the same novelist 8 colleagues are going after and end up losing the beauty contest, probably because we’re just…too talented….for that author to even know how to handle. :erratic Ju…