Two wonderful posts this morning that are very enlightening with regard to understanding why some books get rejected.
In the first, literary agent Janet Reid of Fine Print Literary Management breaks down the 124 full manuscripts she requested this year into offers (2!) and rejections and then breaks the rejections down again into groups showing why they were rejected. Read it here.
The second, and similar post, is by Del Rey Editorial Director Betsy Mitchell over on the Suvudu blog and she does the same thing. Read that one here.
Of particular note – the reason most books were rejected from both the agent and the editor? Simply just not good enough.
