Monsoon Summer
Multiple rejections story: Mitali Perkins’ book Monsoon Summer was rejected 22 times before it was published.
Fools!
Multiple rejections story: One of Sarah Jane Abbott’s most recent books had ten or eleven rejections before she accepted it, as an editor for Beach Lane Books. This INCLUDED things like a revise and resubmit from another house. Sarah Jane Abbott, when asked whether a knowing book was rejected before influences editors, said, “It just…