{"id":391,"date":"2010-07-22T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/rejected-3.html"},"modified":"2010-07-22T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T10:24:00","slug":"rejected_22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/rejected_22\/","title":{"rendered":"REJECTED! :-("},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/TEgcldmZ8RI\/AAAAAAAADsk\/n7tSM0z15I0\/s1600\/rejected.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 328px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/TEgcldmZ8RI\/AAAAAAAADsk\/n7tSM0z15I0\/s400\/rejected.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496674775132139794\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I received a rejection yesterday for a Christmas anthology project that I submitted with three other authors. Bummer!<\/p>\n<p>I know some of you may wonder why I always blog about getting rejected. Although this blog is about Christian Fiction, I also enjoy blogging about what it&#8217;s like to be a writer.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m blessed that I have a full-time job during this bad economy and that I don&#8217;t have to make a full-time living from my writing because I&#8217;m doing a rotten job of getting publishing contracts and if we had to live off of my salary, we&#8217;d be homeless.<\/p>\n<p>My husband works full-time too, but if I were to try and make a living from writing full-time we&#8217;d have to lower our standard of living for me to fulfill my dream and we&#8217;d both be miserable! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll be submitting this elsewhere because I&#8217;ve noticed that most Christian publishers no longer publish anthologies like they used to. From what I&#8217;ve gathered, other than Christmas anthologies, most CBA anthologies are compiled via invitation-only from publisher to author? Although I could be wrong about this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anybody read any great Christian novella anthologies lately? If so, what were the titles and what were the books about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\">~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a rejection yesterday for a Christmas anthology project that I submitted with three other authors. Bummer! I know some of you may wonder why I always blog about getting rejected. Although this blog is about Christian Fiction, I also enjoy blogging about what it&#8217;s like to be a writer. I&#8217;m blessed that I [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rejections","category-writing-related-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-6j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}