First You Pitch, Then You Die
When you have to ask a favor, that could mean everything, how do you make it stick?
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SEPTEMBER 7
First You Pitch, Then You Die - Master Publishing Class I
I’ve published hundreds of bestsellers, and promoted them like thunder.
But when it comes to rejection? I’ve rejected more than I can count.
Authors ask editors like me to buy their manuscript, or to read it for the first time, and give feedback. —Maybe a line edit or more.
Other authors ask their more-famous peers for a blurb; an opinion— they ask for reviews from celebrity readers.
Authors search for others to help us with our research, our interview needs, our pressing deadlines. It’s a quid pro quo spin cycle!
I’m a writer too, I know it all too well. I’ve had my heart in my hand when I had to write someone I really admired, for a favor. The anticipation of rejection can stop you from doing it at all.
It’s difficult to ask those who’ve “made it” to lend a hand, to pay it forward, to be a mentor. We c…