There'd be no reason for them to hedge on the reason for passing on it, though I do think the fact that it was long AND tragic had something to do with it. If the thing had had a happy ending, there'd probably have been less bother about the length.
That's actually the second time that had happened, a publisher sitting on one of my books for a while but ultimately passing, one with a romance novel many years previously, which was held for over a year and got shuffled out the door with the editor-in-chief when she got fired and the editorial direction of the imprint consequently changed. Ah well. It happens.
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Date: 2004-08-04 07:51 am (UTC)There'd be no reason for them to hedge on the reason for passing on it, though I do think the fact that it was long AND tragic had something to do with it. If the thing had had a happy ending, there'd probably have been less bother about the length.
That's actually the second time that had happened, a publisher sitting on one of my books for a while but ultimately passing, one with a romance novel many years previously, which was held for over a year and got shuffled out the door with the editor-in-chief when she got fired and the editorial direction of the imprint consequently changed. Ah well. It happens.