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You can write the perfect book — and still get rejected 😬

Today's guest is author and editor Laura Silverman

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Alyssa Matesic
Jul 16, 2026
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There’s so much about publishing you can’t control.

You can’t control which agents just picked up a similar project. You can’t control whether the market is currently hungry for your genre.

You can’t even control whether your book — a genuinely excellent, well-crafted book — gets a single “yes.”

But there’s one thing you can control: what you write and wh…

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