100 Rejections to get an agent!? my debut novel journey 

Bummed because I got sent home from work early only to be blessed by this notification! Listening on my drive home🎉❤

This was great. I have no creative career but live your channel. Lots of applicable advice for any of life’s avenues

I remember the absolute high of getting your first partial/full request and the crushing blow of the rejection. I was querying around 2012-2013 and I recall my first ever full request was from my dream agent. She did get back to me with some nice words and a request to resubmit, but oh man, I was in the depths of despair when that rejection came in. All summer I was revising with only her three sentences of critique to go on. Agents have so much power over newbie writers. Like imagine if you dashed off three sentences of encouragement and some starry-eyed writer hinges her entire hopes and dreams on three sentences. I was so certain she was going to love the revision. But when the final rejection happened, I was at work and literally ran to the restroom and crumpled into a pathetic sobbing ball. I got through it... only to get rejected again and again. Sometimes being a writer is like going through a gauntlet where you're beaten into a pulp and if you can stand up after that, you can survive anything.

You are so delightful because of how informative and detailed you are. Plus I don’t hate listening to your very calming voice!

Loved this! Your personality is so fun to watch too

Another banger video m8! ❤.

This summary brought us along on an educational journey - thank you!

Love listening to you talk! It’s so inspiring, and refreshing to see someone with your honesty and to just get your point of view. Thanks for sharing!

Yes yes yes to the blurb and query letter writing videos! Always love to hear others’ advice and experiences!

Keep being you just as you are 🙏

Thanks so much for sharing your story! It's inspiring and interesting :)

Great story, thanks for sharing.

I would love to hear more about how you felt writing the book(s) after your first couple manuscripts failed to get an agent, and how you motivated yourself to keep sending stuff out (a burning sense of jealousy? pure masochism??). I'm currently at that point and feel very stuck.

Thank you for sharing this! I love your videos so much, your story is so interesting and you inspire me so much 🥰

I'm one of the people who read Magic Under Glass but then lost track of you (due to health challenges) but found you again via RU-vid! Hello! Nice to read your work again and hear your story :) :)

Start writing short stories in videos format and have someone editing the videos . With your storytelling skill, the videos will kill it!! 🎉

You're a natural story teller! Great video. I'm so impressed by your strength to keep going with writing. I wrote a non-fiction book proposal and i did my research well and found an agency that i could see that my book type was missing from their catalogue and thst they'd probably like it. And they did and i signed on with them and got working on the next book proposal... then out of the blue they email me to say that they were cancelling my contract as it wasn't marketable and i had too low a number of followers on social media. I was crushed. Even though they didn't say it, my great fear was (and is) that my writing was just really bad. I am still sorta shaken by that and doubt my writing very much to this day whereas before I had a natural confidence in jt because i enjoyed it. Also...as they had wanted me to grow a social media following i tried many things to try and achieve that and it basically took over my life at that point. I was making all the trendy short form video content and none of it was true to me and actually it was embarrassing because i felt pushed to do it. So i guess my lesson was that i should stick with things i enjoy and find people who like what i like rather than trying to appeal to mass market. I'm now attempting to write another book and doing so under a pen name as that is giving me back some confidence. My alter ego is far more confident than me so that's good 😅 I guess I'm going to have to have a thicker skin. But when do you heed advice and when do you believe what you've got going is good!?

You’re wonderful.

For someone who lives in Europe, how can I find agents online? Where should I look?