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		<title>Deconstructing a publisher&#8217;s rejection&#8230;with the publisher!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mira Perrizo of Johnsonbooks and I had two conversations after she rejected my book. Both were educational. I was grateful for her time. I’ll share some of what I learned here and then, at least for the time being, this long anti-blog essay will be complete. In our first conversation, Mira said that the primary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rollin&#8217; down the river</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I let two months pass before I gathered my resolve and resumed seeking a publisher for Anything Worth Doing. I started as small as I possibly could: I called a tiny publisher named Backeddy Books, based in Cambridge (that&#8217;s Idaho, not Massachussetts.) Nobody answered. Nobody replied to my message. I didn’t call back. The exercise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jodeurbrouck.com/blog/?p=117</link>
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		<title>Big wheels keep on turnin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had learned a lot from Nancy, not least that finding an agent who believes in your work feels a lot more like chemotherapy than cure. It’s when the work starts (again), not when you sit back and relax. I learned a little more after we parted ways. At our split, I asked a favor: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jodeurbrouck.com/blog/?p=112</link>
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		<title>I want my rejection letters!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One day in March of 2009 I began thinking about the fact that, contrary to our verbal agreement, I had not seen a single rejection letter. How many editors had actually seen my work, I wondered. I liked Nancy but…where were those letters? I did some online searching. Nancy Ellis, I learned, is listed on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jodeurbrouck.com/blog/?p=107</link>
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		<title>Agents assign homework?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nancy was definitely not Renee. She wasn’t easy to reach by phone, but hers is a numbers game: many clients, few paychecks. If she chitchatted with every author she represents every week, she’d get no contracts negotiated. What she reliably did was send out email bulletins when she was heading to New York. She’d ask [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Once more into the shark tank?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That spring I gathered my remaining determination and dusted off Anything Worth Doing. I revised again but my changes were small. I had reached the point of diminishing returns. And the book WAS good. If it wasn’t, my interior voice was out of sync with reality. What my interior voice was still unsure of was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jodeurbrouck.com/blog/?p=91</link>
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		<title>Streee-ike Two!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I called Falcon with my two queries on the desk in front of me, in case I forgot what was so compelling about my books. But I didn’t need my cheat sheets. The editor, Erin Turner, was enthusiastic, and her enthusiasm made my own easy to express. She asked to see queries for both projects. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jodeurbrouck.com/blog/?p=85</link>
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		<title>Crap is for composting&#8230;but how can you tell when it&#8217;s crap?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all heard about that Great Book that no publisher wanted but which, when someone finally saw its true value, instantly vaulted to the rarified air of the New York Times bestseller lists and stuck there, quivering, like a dart in cork. I’m sure it happens. But usually when publishers don’t want books it’s because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jodeurbrouck.com/blog/?p=69</link>
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		<title>Bleh, who needs an agent, anyway?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether we were sharkbit or merely sloppy and naïve, we felt lightened by approximately one pound of flesh. Which is why, when I had three chapters and a detailed outline on &#8220;Anything Worth Doing&#8221; – you’ll recall that that’s the title of the rafting book this anti-blog is purportedly about &#8212; I went straight to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jodeurbrouck.com/blog/?p=64</link>
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		<title>A word about agents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve been reading along with me you noticed an agent, R, who made a cameo appearance and then – poof! &#8211; disappeared from my narrative. Where did she go? The answer is, I don’t know and as far as I can tell, good riddance. Websites, blogs and books get written about how to find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jodeurbrouck.com/blog/?p=53</link>
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