Here's something you've heard before, but I don't believe you can hear it enough. When your manuscript is rejected -- and it will be -- remember that you aren't being rejected. Your manuscript is.
Did you ever hang up the phone on a telemarketer, delete spam from your mailbox, or close the door in the face of a salesman? Of course, and yet that salesman just moves on to the next potential customer. He knows you're rejecting his product, not him.
Okay, in my case I'm rejecting both, but I'd never do that to an author. Neither will a publisher or an agent. All authors tell other authors not to take rejection personally, and yet we all do. Consider it a target to shoot for, then. Just keep submitting, and just keep writing.
My last bit of advice is, feel free to send an e-mail to me anytime. laroccamichael@hotmail.com. I'll gladly share what I know with you, and it won't cost you a cent.
Good luck! No, there's no luck involved. It's all skill and diligence.
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