Rejection Means I Tried!
Hello Friends!
I wanted to share with you what I received in my e-mail on my birthday! (The letter is below) I thought it was funny that it came that day!! It has been months since I spontaneously submitted my picture book to this contest. I didn’t expect to win at all, but I am glad they let me know anyway. So I guess this means I am officially a writer?? Ha, ha. It’s fine. I have never submitted anything before so it was a good experience.
I need to get started on my next writing project for my class. I haven’t been doing any art this week. My husband took two weeks off from work so we have had a lot more time to spend together. We had car problems and had our car in the shop a couple of days so he took our daughter to work very early in the morning a couple of days, because she doesn’t want to drive his 5 speed Nissan truck. She hasn’t learned how to drive a stick shift.
I hope everyone’s holiday season is going well. My husband and I went to town yesterday, and it was a ZOO!! I really want to stay away from there during the next week or so; it is just too crazy!
Until I have something to post next time…
Have a wonderful day, and give someone you love a big hug! And happy holidays!! 🙂
Dear Patsy Parker,
Thank you for submitting “Larry the Lonely Leatherback” to the Sparkhouse Family Children’s Picturebook Contest. Unfortunately, the submission wasn’t a good fit for us at this time. We received many excellent entries and the competition was very stiff. I hope you’ll consider submitting again if you have additional work that you think will be a good fit for our publishing house.
All the best,
The editors at Sparkhouse Family
You can go here to view the submission:
https://sparkhousefamily.submittable.com/user/submissions/8547122
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Posted on December 17, 2017, in Writing and tagged creative writing, picture book, writing. Bookmark the permalink. 27 Comments.
Patsy's Creative Corner 
I really love your outlook – and I once heard that a writing teacher made his students send work to two dozen places – and he prepped them for accepting rejection and becoming familiar with it as part of the process.
and well, your title here says it all: Rejection Means I tried!
so true and so healthy!
and side note- happy belated b-day
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Thanks! I wish some of my writing instructors in college had done that. It is a great idea! Thank you so much for the birthday wishes. 🙂
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my pleasure and hope you have a nice week….
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I hope you have a great week, too! 🙂
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🙂
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It is good they let you know eventually! Of course you are a writer and an artist and one day a publisher will recognise that!
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Thank you Clare! I appreciate your kindness. 🙂
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🙂
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Sorry about the timing, Patsy
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Thanks Derrick. I thought it was kind of funny actually. 😉
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You DID try! Congratulations! As rejections go, that’s a really nice one. Trust me – I have seen MANY of them. Too many to count. But yes, now you are a writer. Actually, you’re an author/illustrator. Awesome!
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Thanks Genevieve! I have actually always considered myself a writer. That was me joking…ha ha. 😉 I have never believed anyone has to be “published” to call themselves a writer. And yes, thank you! Author/illustrator it is!
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Yup! We all have fat folders of rejection letters. At least yours invited you to try again and didn’t say you were hopeless. I liked your story and pictures. I’m sure someone will see what they’re missing one day.
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Thanks Anneli. I found out about the contest on a fluke but entered anyway. I honestly think that story and the illustrations need a lot more work! 🙂
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The first rejections hurt a bit but after a while you realize that most people get tons of them.
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It really doesn’t at all Anneli. I expected it! In fact I didn’t expect to hear anything! 😉
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Well, good for you for trying.
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Thank you!
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Keep putting your work out there, Patsy! I have a notebook full of rejected stories from Woman’s World Magazine and after four years of submitting, I sold in December. ❤
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Thanks Jill. I probably will. 🙂 Congratulations on your story getting published!
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Well, congratulations Patsy! I am agree, that’s really a big step.
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I fotget to put my name on the comment. Sorry about that. 🙂
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How funny, Alf! 😉
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Thanks Anonymous. 🙂
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Patsy – congratulations on submitting! That’s a big step. I think it gets easier every time.
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Thank you, Tiffany!
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