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Surviving Rejection For my Paid Subscribers

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Andrea Cagan
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Surviving Rejection

You’ve just poured your heart and soul into writing a book. You created an alternate world and you finished what you started. You suffered your inner critic nagging in your ear. You urged yourself to keep on going. Now, holding a completed manuscript is exciting and satisfying. Self-publishing is one way to go if you’re willing to do the necessary marketing work. But if you’re not and you decide to go the traditional “finding an agent and a publisher” route, rejection is a sure thing and it’s brutal.

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