KRIS ASHTON

Unless you are a bestselling author who can name his or her price, you’re only as good as your last sale. It’s been a lean year for me,...

In their blackest moments, aspiring authors often cling to anecdotes about wildly successful books that were rejected ad nauseum before...

Getting fiction published is hard enough. Don’t disqualify yourself before the editor even starts reading your story. Novice authors...

The most painful rejection found on the rejection spectrum is the shortlist rejection. This is where a story is ‘recommended for a second...

When an unpublished writer has been rejected enough, I suppose it's inevitable that he will develop a complex. In its early stages, the...

If there's one thing would-be writers are never prepared for, it's chronic rejection. The key word in that previous sentence, of course,...