Now, here’s an idea—holding a funeral for a manuscript you can’t place with a major publisher.
Writer Mary Patrick Kavanaugh is laying her rejected manuscript, Family Plots: Love, Death and Tax Evasion, to rest tomorrow afternoon, Saturday, December 6th, 4 p.m. sharp at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, California.
From the press release:
The event will be open coffin. Many manuscript drafts, rejection notices, refinance papers, vision boards, an MFA in Creative Writing, and possibly even the authors much watched DVD copy of The Secret, will be on view prior to the service for final farewell. Guests are invited to bring remants of their own dead dreams to bury with the author’s dashed hopes.
However, all is not lost. After rejections from sixteen New York publishers, Mary decided to self-publish her book with iUniverse, and it’s currently for sale on Amazon. This is her first novel. What say you? Is she giving up too soon? Or has she hit upon The Mother of All Book-Launching Publicity Stunts? Why not try a small press instead of going the self-publishing route?
By the way, I looked and looked, but I couldn’t find an excerpt of Mary’s novel on her website.
You can attend the funeral in person or via podcast. Visit Mary’s website for directions and more information.