I got my first rejection letter the other day, and i must say it has done wonders for my writing. I have written 30K in the past two days of my stand alone story Winter's Charm - now that's a role considering it took me two years to get to 60K. I only have an intended 10K left so I hope the writing bug stays with me. Has anyone else this fasinating side affect from rejection letters?

Timna, I think you have had a great reaction to a rejection letter. I crumbled in a heap with my first one - took me ages to recover.
Now I just get back on the horse the next day with the agro reaction of 'you're not going to stop me you bast**ds!'

Which publisher was it?

deb

It was UQP - said it wasnt really them - which is fine. If they had of said it was crap - that'd be a different story.
As for the story WC - i have written an additional 6K words today but have run out of story. so am just rounding off with an Epi and will edit later which might make it stretch alittle further - my target publishers want 100K at least - do you guys think a 4K under will affect the grand scheme of things?

Not at all Timna. Publishers are quite capable of padding books out with larger fonts and lots of white space, so I don't think 4k will make any difference at all.

And congratulations on receiving your first rejection letter. I know it should feel bad, but what it actually signifies is that you had the courage to put yourself "out there", to ask for feedback and to be prepared to cope with rejection.

I'm very proud of you.

Well I think i bounced back incrediably well and have sent it off again to another publisher. I will keep trying no matter what.
As for the most recent story i've drafted, being as it is a stand alone story, I have every faith that it could signify as my first book. Perhaps trying hit publishers with more than one book at a time is difficult - as so many fantasy books are a series, i didnt think twice again it, but i need to prove my capabilities after all.
Cross fingers...