Bad Day

Count 'em - five rejections of a query, all received in one day. Okay, so Amanda Urbin sent a postcard of rejection and that was to be expected, still, it's been pretty pathetic. To top it all off, Simon Lipskar's new assistant rejected the last partial that was still out there. That really capped the misery index for this week.

Something caught my eye in one of the forums on Absolute Write. Cut to the chase was the general recommendation, and so I have taken an axe to the manuscript and eliminated the first chapter. There was some backstory in there, but I thought I needed something to set up the story. Time to try a new tack and just blow off any explanations. Maybe it's enought for the readers to figure out on their own that the main character has just left her husband. Maybe there's no need to spell it out.

New title, new query, and I'll go back to the beginning and re-query everyone again. Another 300 stamps. It's only money, right?