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How 100 rejections launched this author's career 📚

Today's guest is author and writing teacher Jessica Brody

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Alyssa Matesic
Jul 30, 2026
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Sometimes rejection is really just redirection.

Getting rejected by nearly a hundred agents on your first book sounds like a writer’s nightmare. But for this author, it was actually the beginning of something much bigger.

Once she figured out the problem with her manuscript running underneath all those rejections, she launched a second career as a writing…

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