{"id":244,"date":"2011-05-02T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/winner-and-rejection.html"},"modified":"2011-05-02T10:39:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T10:39:00","slug":"winner-and-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/winner-and-rejection\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner And Rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The winner for the April Book Giveaway<\/a> is:
Diana Donnelly – Thayne, WY<\/p>\n

Diana, I’ll be mailing your books out to you within the next week. Everybody else, I’ll be posting TWO book giveaways soon. One will be a stand-alone book with an author interview, and the other will be another box of books. Visit my blog often for updates for these giveaways!<\/p>\n

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Also, wanted to mention that I’ve gotten a couple of rejections over the last few months. I forgot to blog about these. Some have asked why I blog about rejections..why? It’s part of being a writer and I think it helps unpublished writers to see what the rejections say. I like to focus on both the negative and positive aspects of writing to give a realistic view of the industry. Here’s what my most recent rejection said:<\/p>\n

Thank you for submitting the proposal for (title of my work). I\u2019m sorry to say that this title is somewhat like some of our other titles. We\u2019re going to release an \u201cidentical twin brother\u201d story later this year. However, while that title isn\u2019t necessarily a romance novel it\u2019s a little too close and we don\u2019t want our readers to think that we\u2019re publishing the same story over and over.<\/p>\n

Again, we\u2019d like to see some new ideas and hope that Cecelia Dowdy can provide something more for the (XXXX) team to review.
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~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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