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Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing

Mark Leslie Lefebvre

EP 448 - When Your Writing Gets Rejected A Gazillion Times

DEC 12, 202528 MIN
Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing

EP 448 - When Your Writing Gets Rejected A Gazillion Times

DEC 12, 202528 MIN

Description

In this solo episode, Mark reads from an article that he recently shared on the Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing Substack page.

This will be Part 1 of a two-part series of episodes.

Prior to the main content of this episode, Mark shares a personal update, a comment from a recent episode, and a word from this episode's sponsor.

This episode is sponsored by The 7 P's of Publishing Success by Mark Leslie Lefebvre, which you can download in eBook and/or Audiobook format for free at this link.

Links of Interest:

The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast ("Laser Groove") was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0