I didn't get the job. Fuckall.

[nolabear]

11. As a therapist I get fired sometimes. As a writer I get rejected. It doesn't predict the future.

I'm really sorry you didn't get the job. And I'm not at the end of my rope or anything, so I don't want to just sound like I'm blowing smoke. But things can turn around in remarkable ways, and if you don't give up they will.

Here's a list of novels who were turned down, the writer's version of not getting the job.



Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
Margaret Mitchell – Gone With the Wind
Herman Melville – Moby Dick
Madeleine L’Engle – A Wrinkle in Time
J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Peter Rabbit
H. G. Wells – The War of the Worlds
Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged
Judy Blume – The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo
Kathryn Stockett – The Help
Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book
Shel Silverstein – The Giving Tree
Lucy Maud Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables
John Grisham – A Time to Kill
Agatha Christie – The Mysterious Affair at Styles