Dead on Arrival: What to do Once a Novel Dies on Submission

a guest post by Jessica Stilling

It wasn’t until the last night of my Novel Writing class I taught while working on my upcoming novel Between Before and After, that two students confessed their deepest novel writing secret. We’d been discussing the perils of trying to get published and what it’s like to have an agent for the better part of an hour when one student broke the ice and confessed. Once she’d confessed, two other students came forward and said they too, had dealt with this ...