Writing may be a passion that comes directly from the heart. But publishing is a cut throat, profit-led business that puts the publisher before the author.
Even getting your manuscript to a publisher may be a difficult task. It is exceptionally difficult for genres that publisher's have too much of. Simply having a good manuscript doesn't mean you will be accepted, considering the number of submissions of the same type of book a publishing company receives. The publishers will always choose the one that will gain them the most profit. Publishing books is a business and profits matter if a publisher wants to survive. Most of the time, it's this direct line for profit that deviates from seeing the truly great work.
There are stories, I am sure you have heard, of authors who have submitted to a dozen publishers and have been rejected each time. And just because these authors believed in their own work so much, they persisted, got published, and guess what? They became best sellers.
There are even some cases where the publishers are quite rude about their rejections. Have you ever seen the classic teen horror movie “Carrie”? The movie “Carrie” is based on a novel written by Stephen King. That novel became massively successful when it was published. A movie and a remake of the movie were even made out from the book. But before “Carrie” was published, Stephen King endured a dozen of humiliating rejections.
Another really good story on rejected but successful novels is “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K Rowling. Belive it or not, the famed novel was actually rejected by dozens of publishers. Well-known names in the world of publishing like Bloomsbury, HarperCollins and Penguin missed the chance to publish a virtual gold mine because they thought that children do not want to read thick books - or so they thought.
These are all true stories, and it could happen to you. It's important to have a very thick skin when trying to get your work published. Or they may have also just given up on finding a publisher and published their own work.
It takes real dedication to be an author. Writing requires discipline and the will to succeed. Not everybody can work like that. But most importantly, a working author has to believe enough in their work to deserve publishing and thick skin to find a publisher.
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