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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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Susie Bright
Sep 02, 2023
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My first master publishing class is starting next week!

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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!

Writers don’t usually feel this confident. ;-)

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…

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