The Tarnished Silver Lining of Rejection with Adrean Mesmer| Inside the Mind of an Editor

If authors have a hard road to tread, we must never forget that editors are trudging along beside us through the literary muck. All of us who have submitted work to an editor know the sting of the rejection letter. No one likes to be rejected; to have our story come back to us unwanted is like a slap to the face that says, “You didn’t do this right. And you call yourself an author!”

But an editor’s job is tough. They are tasked with reading everything that comes in – the dreck and the gold a...