Let's Try This Again

So I'm making it my new years resolution to try to post on here at least weekly...

What's that you say? It's February 16th? Yeah, yeah, details, details.

So to catch everyone up here's a rejection letter:

"Dear Mr. Byard,

Thank you for your submission to The Broken Plate. Unfortunately, we have decided your work isn’t right for the next issue. We hope you will try us again when we reopen for submissions in September, 2011.

Sincerely,
The Broken Plate editors"

Also I've been doing a lot of photography lately and I figure if I can't think of anything else to post I'll post some pictures on here every now and again.


If you want to see more of my photos you can check out my flicker page here.

I do a lot better job of updating that page than this one.

Until next time.

-KJB

You are Free to Have Your Story Back

In keeping up with my promise that I would post all my rejection letters here I am making a new post although I haven't posted anything else since May. I won't fill you in on the details of what's happened between now and then. You want details go to my wife's blog "Byard's Bywords". There you will find details galore.

Here's the rejection:

"Thank you for offering your story to Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. We're sorry to tell you that we will not be using it; you are free to submit it elsewhere."

Thank you for your permission.

-KJB

Rejection

So this post will be brief. I've decided that rejection letters don't really bother me. And the truth of the matter is they shouldn't bother anyone who is aspiring to be a writer. It's part of the business. Besides it's not like I am scrambling to publish so I can make money to buy groceries. And I've only really submitted like three times. My aunt Wendy just had a book published she had to send it to like sixty publishers. I've heard one-hundred are so is not uncommon. I won't get down though. I refuse to. I must press on.

Here is today's rejection letter (which I received just hours after submitting, 'elimae' is good like that) :

"Good evening. Thanks for thinking of 'elimae.' This one isn't right for us, but we wish you the best elsewhere."

It almost sounds like. Please, please, please don't submit anything to us again! I know it doesn't really mean that. I'm no Shakespeare (nor do I wish to be), but I'm not Danielle Steele either.

So there you have it...I'm sure there will be many more rejection letters to come. And I will post them all up here just for laughs. It'll make the first publication all the sweeter.

-KJB