rejection slip
Manuscript return notice
A rejection slip is a brief, often form-letter notice from a publisher or editor declining to publish a submitted manuscript.
Writers seeking publication typically accumulate many rejection slips before finding success: She papered her office wall with rejection slips.
The term evokes the impersonal nature of the publishing industry's responses to hopeful authors.
- slush pileUnreviewed manuscript accumulation
- form letterPrewritten mail for many
- publisherCompany releasing books
- publishing industryBusiness of producing books
- denialRefusal to accept reality
notification · literary agent · literary magazine · perseverance · keep trying · setback · self-doubt · manuscript · mail · coping mechanisms · thick skin · author · writing career · paper · disappointment · resilience · correspondence · submission
- official documentsbirth certificate, marriage certificate, death certificate, passport, driver's license
rejection slipacceptance letter
Official enrollment confirmation
publishing contract · book deal · offer letter · green light · thumbs up
rejection slipacceptance letter
Official enrollment confirmation
publishing deal · book deal · publishing contract · breakthrough · big break
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