Comments on: Myth Busting – Day 2

By: Snappoint

Snappoint — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:56:50 +0000

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Great blog post, saw on…

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:44:57 +0000

>These are very helpful. Thanks, Rachelle.

By: Carol Riggs

Carol Riggs — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:50:45 +0000

>LOL–love this one: Agents are snarky, scary, and mean, and love rejecting you. (This being true) Thanks for the laugh as well as the rest of the info. 🙂

By: Emily Wenstrom

Emily Wenstrom — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:01:44 +0000

>I’m enjoying this mythbusting a great deal. I hadn’t even heard of some of these. Thanks Rachelle. It’s always nice to be reminded that agents are decent, reasonable human beings just trying to do their jobs.

By: Tamika:

Tamika: — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:40:54 +0000

>This is why agent blogs are such gems! You tackle all the talk around cybertown:)

Thanks Rachelle!

By: Kristin Laughtin

Kristin Laughtin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:04:34 +0000

>It can be disheartening to think that once you get an agent, you still might not get published, but I think it's something more writers need to be prepared for, so thanks for addressing it. The hard work only just begins once you have an agent! That agent still has to sell your book and there's no guarantee of that, even if they're with a top agency. Then you have to promote the heck out of it in order to get people to buy it. And whether that agent can or can't sell your first book to a publisher, you've got to still write the second book...and the third...

The work never ends, so be prepared for it.

By: V.V. Denman

V.V. Denman — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:46:36 +0000

>What brand of chocolate??

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:43:10 +0000

>This is a great list! Thank you for dispelling these myths.

Myth - If you don't follow this ONE piece of advice, we will immediately reject you, and you will never get published.

Sometimes this one feels true. After researching an agent's website and her submission guidelines, I painstakingly prepared then submitted everything she asked for. The next day I received an email that read "Please follow the submission guidelines on our website." It took me hours to prepare and another couple of hours to try to figure out what I thought might be wrong. The end result was still a rejection. A positive to all of it is that it helped me to focus on some aspects that I hadn't considered in the past. Every experience can be a learning experience!

Thanks again for taking the time to put all of this together.

By: goldhawk

goldhawk — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:52:27 +0000

>"Myth: Self-publishing can make you a millionaire."

Buying a lottery ticket can make you a millionaire, and you have higher odds. :)

By: patti.mallett_pp

patti.mallett_pp — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:35:16 +0000

>Thanks for adding the spoonful-of-sugar, Rachelle! (Your posts always go down well.) : >

By: Jackie

Jackie — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:07:01 +0000

>Thanks for the link to Amanda Hocking's blog – an interesting and challenging read.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:49:37 +0000

>Really helpful for those of us planning to write a book! I look forward to more myth busting!

By: Myne Whitman

Myne Whitman — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:16:38 +0000

>Informative busts too, like the ones on self publishing. It is a lot of work.

By: Michelle DeRusha@Graceful

Michelle DeRusha@Graceful — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:47:59 +0000

>I had to click over to read Amanda Hocking's post because I'd never heard of her until five minutes ago (which makes sense, now that I know her genre). I have to say, I appreciate how she tells it like it is. Kind of like you, Rachelle…and I mean that in the very best way!