WIAN got rejected by Harcourt! Yo! ::does groovy rejection dance:: Now when is my stupid Ballantine letter coming? ::is impatient::

Wondering why I'm cheering over a rejection? Well, I knew I was going to get rejected from Harcourt, as they only accept manuscripts from authors with a literary agent. However, my mom made me submit a query anyway. Oh well. From there, it's Discworld logic. Someone somewhere probably has a statistic for how often first-time writers are rejected by publishers, but for the sake of sanity, let's say 9 out of 10 times. That means, if I sent out ten query letters, I would be accepted by only one of them. Well, so far I've sent out two query letters, and since one has been rejected, that slightly increases my chance of getting accepted by the other 8 queries I may eventually send out.

Yes, I know that things don't work like that. It's Discworld logic, as I said before. But everyone's entitled to their own delusions, aren't they? And plus, why get upset about something you knew was going to happen anyway?