Just got word from the “intrigued” publisher…
Although our work is interesting and intriguing, their listing is all booked for the next year and can’t place our book on it for now… She wishes us the best of luck…
That’s the catch in all of this…
The larger publishers won’t look at our work because we haven’t been published… and the smaller publishers who will look at us — and are moved by our stuff — don’t have the staff, resources, and publishing power to take on more than they already have.
Seems like an endless cycle for us. I feel a bit like Don Quixote, fighting my own personal giants.
Like the song, Windmills of Your Mind, from the Thomas Crown Affair:
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning,
On an ever spinning wheel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning,
On an ever spinning wheel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind
Anyway, I’m trying to think of another strategy, while still sending out (pointless) queries and book proposals.
If only I can connect with some established authors in the field that we want to break into, maybe they could help us. It’s worth a try.
What’s the worst thing that can happen? They ignore our request… and heaven knows, I’m used to that by now.
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