Samuel Beckett: His book, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, was dismissed in 1932 with a declaration that the publisher 'wouldn’t touch this with a barge-pole'. Photograph: Getty Images
If you’ve recently heard a collective intake of breath, it’s probably coming from a posse of publishers near you, bracing themselves for the deluge that’s coming. They know that those new year resolutions to get that novel published have been set in motion. Manuscripts have been retrieved from the dusty bowels of laptops and are being dispatched.
And in tandem with the arrival of the swallows, the rejection emails will start to wing their way into the inboxes of many of those hopeful writers. But if your life’s work is rejected, fear not.
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