Some truths about the publishing industry because I certainly got blindsided when going in. Now I’m so broken by this industry I struggle to encourage aspiring writers lmao
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Honestly, I think we need to hear these truths. And also saddening that nothing seems to have really changed. Anne of Green Gables, a “classic” book, took 8 years to get published, was rejected by Canadian publishers to be picked up by a US publisher, and then that same publisher screwed over L. M. Montgomery later (it led to a long court case).
Frank Herbert’s Dune, one of the moast influential and moast adapted works of Scence Fiction was rejected one HUNDRED times before it got published.