I wrote a book! Yes, I was excited about it, and once I had a draft completed, I began searching for a publisher. This is my story about that search, with hopes my experience can be of some use to ...

The characters in Tony Tulathimutte’s novel in stories, Rejection (Morrow, Sept.), turn increasingly inward after failing at romance and their careers. How did this book come about? I was lying face ...

In Tony Tulathimutte’s debut novel, Private Citizens, Will, a computer programmer, wonders “whether masturbating to porn was an art form: not as ‘erotica’ or performance art, but as solitary pursuit ...

Whether you're a writer, an athlete, a musician, an artist, or just a person trying to get by, rejection happens. And it sucks big time. From auditions to job applications to asking people out, a huge ...

Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning Saul Bellow had this to say about rejections: "I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say ...

After 15 years of abandoned manuscripts and countless rejections, Bray's persistence paid off when her debut novel "The Lies Between Us" was snapped up by her dream publisher and landed a US deal. If ...