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Arg, the writer's life! (Part 2)
Monday, April 23, 2007
I looked over the last post and noted that I'd failed to post anything truly awful, the kind of rejection you get that is like a knife through the heart.
Here's one. It's for a book I wrote called (variously) After the Fall or New Boy. Those are the only two titles I can remember, but no doubt it went through many others as well: all of my unpublished novels went through a number of title changes, as if this were all the awful thing needed to make it, miraculously, good. Never worked.
New Boy was about a really weird kid who moves to a new neighborhood, hooks up with a nice family and proceeds to destroy it, in the end burning down their house. Fun!
Anyway, here is what one savvy editor had to say about it. Note the asterisk, added by my then-agent, for moral support. That Jared was a very kind young man.
posted by Daniel Wallace at 12:55 PM
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