bugger. That was "The Nursery" right?

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Yus. There's no shortage of other publishers on my list to try, although this one did look particularly good because they're aimed at first-timers, and they accept submissions by email rather than typescript.

Looks like I'll have a trip to my local stationers lined up for next weekend, to buy some more reams of paper...

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that's a shame... i used to keep all the history of guns rejection letters in a box, waiting for when we made it big...

of course the trick is to never give up... as the song goes, "either we succeed or we die trying" ('pattern death' - hog)

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Yeah, I do the same things with my own rejection letters (or at least I will continue doign so until they become a fire hazard).

I have no plans of giving up, although I'm taking a hiatus with my writing to concentrate on learning to animate, as well as carrying out miscellanious life-maintenance. I've got an idea for one other full-length novel, although I doubt I'll ever sit down and write this one unless either The Nursery gets published or I retire. I might do the occasional short fic every now and then, though.

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At the end of the day, their loss. Everything has its time and place. You could send 'The Nursery' to the same publisher in a years time and they'd lap it up on the spot! Keep at it!

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Thanks :)

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Bad luck (as it says in the letter (and I believe it) they might just have gone up to their limits this season). Good luck with further submissions.

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Thanks - I think it's quite likely they're over their limits right now. I recently read an article on the BBC news page, where they were saying they'd received more than three times the expected volume of submissions in their first year.

Apparently, romantic novels, Dan Brown-style mystery thrillers and tales about bored people going through midlife crises have featured most heavily in the deluge, so I thought an apocalyptic tale set in a fictitious foreign country might fare better. But I suppsoe they know the market better than I do.

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