My debut novel did very well with conventional publishers,but they weren’t interested in the ‘difficult moment’ – so I’m going it aloneMy debut novel Mrs Sinclair’s Suitcase was published in 2014. It did OK. The novel has respectable sales figures for a debut, it did particularly well in foreign rights and has been translated into 14 languages. Two of my foreign deals were for six-figure sums. In the UK, and it was reviewed in the Times and the Daily Mail and in several womens magazines. I assumed I would be a shoo-in for that “difficult moment novel”.
But my (very difficult,as it turned out) moment novel was turned down flat. Cue the disbelief, followed by the tears, or then the ranting and raving,the why, why, or why? And that was just my husband.
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Source: theguardian.com