Literary Rejections on Display Now Has Long COVID

Dear Playwright: Thank you for submitting your work to the Playwrights Foundation. We regret that we are not able to produce your play, [TIT...

Ouch. But you've got to admit that the editor is a kind fellow and handled this situation well. The mouse who sent this rejection in wro...

This ruling against the googlization of all books happened while I was in California, and I missed it, but think it's important to note...

There seems to be many musical rejections online for the taking.

It was the fallopian tubes that got in the way of the New Yorker acceptance, darn it all. Click the rejection to read the handwritten note. ...

So, what then is the reason for not taking it.  Just didn't feel like it?  Didn't really find it engaging and well-written? Fickle? ...

Here's a  rejection app for your iPhone? It's called Rejection Therapy--The Game . The only rule is that you must be rejected by on...

Too much detail, too slow: a border-line case. Alas.

Hello micycles. I'm over the vertigo and traveling around the West Coast this and last week.  So, the question of blog quality may conti...

From an LROD reader: Every once in a while when I am catastrophically bored, I will respond to junk mail and subscription requests from jo...

Here's a particularly harsh and extensive rejection sent in by an LROD Mouse: Let me start by congratulation the author on the fortitud...

Friday, friday.  I've had a crazy bad bout of vertigo. Feeling better but not all the way.  No work on my novel til the room stops spinn...

I was looking back through some old computer files, trying to find a particular scene from a long-ago version of my novel because I though...

Looks like books are breaking out of Borders and Barnes & Nobles and busting into other trend-worthy places, Like Marc Jacobs and Anth...

Congratulations once again, Jacob Appel, for winning yet another prestigious  literary award!  It's unbelievable that certain agents ju...