Feb 10 2009
Literary Rejections on Display
Maybe it’s a morbid fascination, but I’m definitely not the only one fascinated to read editors making fun of things they’ve rejected. Sometimes I read it and think “Hmmm, I think it sounds allright” and then I have to pay very close attention to the reasons it’s been rejected. Each editor has their own quirks, but there seem to be a lot of them blogging the more profound rejections. One I was reading today was a blogspot blog called Literary rejections on display. There’s actually quite a fascinating conversation going on between her commenters and the author, which is a fantastic feature. In several of her posts she quotes a comment, much like Jenny the Bloggess does. It’s good because it makes you read the comments, and the o0riginal post, and it creates a little web of stickiness that bloggers find irresistible.
