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included in her selection process. I then had to
show my complete surprise and enthusiasm for this
new title and author. She then delivered her
critique and rejected it out of court. She explained
that whoever the author was most definitely a
journalist and had no talent to write children’s
stories. However, she added that we were to write
to the author and explain that it was written in an
incorrect way but the storyline itself had value and
she was interested in a rewrite.
This was placed in the minutes of the meeting and
the author was written to asking for this rewrite!
I rewrote it.
She rejected it again!
In fact I rewrote it three more times and each time
it was rejected. The general rejection was
centralised around the fact that it had no relevance
to a children’s story etc etc.
At every meeting we had, my editor, who was the
buffer between Nellie and the author, me,
delivered the news that I had been rejected once
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