The letter fell to the floor. Even if the letters weren’t precisely in big red font, “Rejected” was easy enough to understand.
Ridiculous!
Their very response rendered my premise unimpeachable.
I lost count of the rejections, all bearing essentially identical messages.
These publishers couldn’t appreciate how I meticulously executed, documented, and validated all seven methods in the book.
The flames devoured the letter as I slid on my boots, the rest of my tools already prepared.
Their reviews said it was “unrealistic”, “impossible”, “penny dreadful caliber fiction”, blah, blah, blah.
I guess Getting Away with Murder needed additional hands-on testing.
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Matthew Fromm
Full-time nerd, history enthusiast, and proprietor of random knowledge. The best way to find your perfect story is to write it yourself.
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Quoth
Unnoticed, the clock struck into the next day. Before my eyes, as midnight came and went, the words on the pages over which I poured blurred together. Meaningless under my over-tired gaze, they looped around themselves, slowly winding lines of text twisting themselves into knots as I watched, barely awake enough to do more than notice the change.
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At work a few weeks ago, I was using that Spotify DJ thing, the AI tool that slightly bugs me on principle, but not enough for me to boycott it. (You know the one?) Anyway, I was jamming out to songs I was familiar with, a few new ones, and then all of a sudden, I was stopped in my tracks.
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Lol. I didn’t see that coming!! Nicely done ☺️