So this week has been filled with rejections. But the bad news was tempered with some good...the agent who had my full actually put some feedback in her response. FINALLY!
She said that she loved the story and that the period and setting really stood out from other run-of-the-mill historical romances. The reason she did not bite was the POV shifts. She was not a fan plus she felt that it might be a hard sell to publishers.
OK, I can handle that. At least I know that I'm creative and can write an enjoyable story. Now the question is should I revise the story to all third person? It would take a lot of work and I may have exhausted my querying for this particular story. The agent did not invite me to re-submit so that makes me wonder if there were other problems. Am I barking up the wrong tree? Should I just put REBEL HEART to bed and work on my other novels? My other works are all third person so I might not have the same issue. Additionally, I'm getting some good initial feedback on REBELLION. I have an inkling (a very small one) that I may have hit upon something very good with that one. I've just got to focus on writing it! Which seems to be so very, very hard for me right now.
What do you think I should do, dear readers? Should I close the book (ha, ha) on this manuscript and move on or should I revise, rinse, and repeat?
