10:25 am 10:25 am

Rejection hurts

By |2016-12-31T02:17:38+00:00July 6th, 2007|Jupiter journal|0 Comments

DJ,From one high, to another low. Got an email from Ivan today, he's the agent I sent my book to. I've pasted what he said below.I got the book and had a look at it last night. It's not a novel for me I'm sorry to say. The story is good and original. The writing is okay but it didn't pull me in. I also find the letters device can get a bit limiting after a while. But someone else may feel differently.Below is an extract from the review of Imagine This posted on the Book PedlarI can’t express how good, how utterly amazing, this novel is. The fact that this is Adeniran’s first novel is astounding. There is so much depth here, so much feeling and emotion that it is hard to believe I’m not reading the work of a seasoned writer. Imagine This is pure, unadulterated storytelling and [...]

3:21 pm 3:21 pm

Day off

By |2007-07-05T15:21:00+00:00July 5th, 2007|Jupiter journal|0 Comments

DJ,I'm having a day off from everything, it's all getting too much.  Not sure which direction to go next and I'm starting to feel like a beggar asking for crumbs from a wealthy relative.  I can either have another session of duvet crying or I can suck it up and grow another layer of skin.Great news, just as I'm tapping away thinking about my options, Dionne Grant from Young Voices - a magazine I've never read - has called me to say she'd received the copy of Imagine This and will be reviewing it in September's issue.  Brilliant, no giving up.THOUGHT OF THE DAYNo giving up, keep chipping away, keep calling and keep bugging them.

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