I've gotten at least five more rejections since the last time I've mentioned it, and I'm contemplating something crazy -- querying non-genre (i.e. literary/upmarket fiction) agents to represent me.
Maybe it's the depression talking -- "You have nothing more to lose. You might as well set yourself up for rejection and get it over with."
Maybe it's that a friend of my husband's (a writer in the small-press horror genre) said I write too well for genre fiction. I don't know if I believe him -- I might, however, write too subtly for genre fiction.
Maybe, though, I write too subtly for any fiction.
I don't think I stand a chance. I write about ordinary people rubbing elbows with preternatural creatures who together face supernatural warfare that is in some ways all too human. I write about the intersection of time travel and global warming. I write complex, imperfect characters who may not be human, with all that means. I don't know if literary or upmarket wants to read that.
I'm still thinking, folks. I'm still thinking.
Wish me luck.
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