Jack of Harts

Every author who submits their stuff gets rejected many times. Usually many more times than they are accepted. I recently did something new for me though. I dreamed about getting an email titled rejected. Woke up, checked the email, and nothing. Which is good. But that is the kind of horror authors can dream up. That is our existential dread. Rejection. It is probably one reason why so many authors never release their first book. Fear of rejection. I will not say that fear goes away. Heck, I just dreamed it. But we do learn to live with it. Every time we send another story in, every time we send one to a new market, every time we publish a story, that is a time when we choose to live with the fear of rejection and choose to surpass it.