I was pretty sure you'd read the same thing I had. :-)
I do the "run in circles scream and shout" thing every time I try to deal with sending this book out. It's actually easier to cope if I assume that it will be rejected, partly because I know that the content *is* going to make it trickier to place. (Trickier, but not impossible.) Helps distract me from the possibility that it will be rejected because it's unmarketable for other reasons. :-) But it's also easier to go ahead and do a draft letter for the *next* place I'll send it while I've still got the momentum going from this one.
Glad to hear the Baen rejection doesn't sting so badly once you've had a chance to assimilate it. The trouble is, you open the letter and see that they don't want the book, and no matter how helpful they try to be in their comments, at that point it's just a list of reasons why This Book Sucks. I had one of Weird Tales' trademark Weird Rejections a couple of years ago, and although I knew they were trying to give me useful information, it took me a few weeks before I could go back and reread the letter and *use* the helpful comments.
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I do the "run in circles scream and shout" thing every time I try to deal with sending this book out. It's actually easier to cope if I assume that it will be rejected, partly because I know that the content *is* going to make it trickier to place. (Trickier, but not impossible.) Helps distract me from the possibility that it will be rejected because it's unmarketable for other reasons. :-) But it's also easier to go ahead and do a draft letter for the *next* place I'll send it while I've still got the momentum going from this one.
Glad to hear the Baen rejection doesn't sting so badly once you've had a chance to assimilate it. The trouble is, you open the letter and see that they don't want the book, and no matter how helpful they try to be in their comments, at that point it's just a list of reasons why This Book Sucks. I had one of Weird Tales' trademark Weird Rejections a couple of years ago, and although I knew they were trying to give me useful information, it took me a few weeks before I could go back and reread the letter and *use* the helpful comments.