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A Very Nice Rejection Letter Chris Paling

A Very Nice Rejection Letter By Chris Paling

A Very Nice Rejection Letter by Chris Paling


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Summary

The confessions of a midlist writer - what nobody sets out to be, but the destination of most.

A Very Nice Rejection Letter Summary

A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist by Chris Paling

'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times

6 April 2007



Writing income for the year so far: minus GBP300


'I feel that this might just be the year in which something happens. Then again it might not. But hope drives all writers on.'


It's unlikely that you'll know Chris Paling's face or have heard his name. This is his diary of trying to make a living as a writer, through the typical career trajectory of what is deemed a 'mid-list novelist'. Publishing rule 6: there is no such thing as a 'low-list' novelist.


In renumeration terms, writing is a career that often ends in disappointment and despair, and occasionally disgrace. Paling artfully explores what compels him and so many others to write - the battling joys and agonies of when that compulsion beds itself in one's psyche, and a day without writing is a day wasted. A fascinating insight into the writing process, he tracks the need to write something new, or something old in a new way, something relevant, something that needs to be written when very little actually does, in search of that ever-elusive goal of being 'in print'.


By turns moving, wry and brutally honest, A Very Nice Rejection Letter unveils the rewarding yet soul-baring life of a novelist. At its heart is a love letter to the art of writing but this delightful book is also a profound reflection on the forces that drive us all.

A Very Nice Rejection Letter Reviews

Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored -- Jackie Annesley * Sunday Times *
Funny and revealing . . . everyone who is convinced they have a book in them should read [this book] -- Neil Armstrong * Mail on Sunday *
A Very Nice Rejection Letter is a completely authentic account of what it's like to be merely reasonably good -- Thomas W Hodgkinson * Literary Review *
Splendidly entertaining * The Chap *

About Chris Paling

Chris Paling is the UK and Commonwealth's 1001st Most Important Novelist (Living). For the past 35 years he has been trying (and failing) to make a living as a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and, most recently, a painter. He has authored nine novels, one work of nonfiction, one stage play and numerous short stories alongside a parallel life working full-time as a radio producer at the BBC.

Additional information

GOR011537525
9781472134875
1472134877
A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist by Chris Paling
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Little, Brown Book Group
20210617
240
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