How do you do it, dad?
Do what?
Well, that letter that you have framed in your office.
[fondly] My first manuscript rejection.
Yeah. How can you stand having it there?
Because it drives me. And I got twenty more of those before Black Pawn ever agreed to publish In a Hail of Bullets. That letter... that letter reminds me of what I've overcome. Rejection isn't failure.
It sure feels like failure.
No, failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. It's how you handle it that determines where you'll end up.
My whole life has been about making sure I could get into any college I wanted. What's it about now?
Give it time. You'll figure it out.
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