Post-Mortem: Abraham Road
Abraham Road Cover Art
John Mandler: So you said you weren’t going to self-publish again, and then you did anyway.
Kristopher Kelly: Exactly.
JM: Feel good about that?
KK: Nope.
JM: Why did you do it?
KK: I thought it would make a good Kindle Single. I thought they’d accept it. I’d read a lot of Singles. Thought this was definitely on par, if not better. Shows what I know.
JM: And so?
KK: Just got word back. Another one for the rejection pile.
JM: That’s a shame.
KK: I know.
JM: I’m not even real, am I?
KK: Afraid not. This is another self-interview on a mostly-ignored blog about a self-published book that’s going nowhere.
JM: Oh yeah, how are sales?
KK: Inconsequential.
JM: Are you quite done with self-publishing, then?
KK: Who can say. Probably. Maybe. I think so. I don’t know.
JM: You submit a piece to McSweeney’s again this week?
KK: Sure did.
JM: Good luck with that. You gonna be all right, hoss?
KK: More or less. What’s that the reality competition people always say? “You ain’t seen the last of me!”
JM: So we’ve not seen the last of you?
KK: I dunno. I hope not. But this one hurts.
JM: Smarts.
KK: Stings.
JM: Burns.
KK: Kick to the groin.
JM: Slap to the face.
KK: Stick in the eye.
JM: A muddy one.
KK: I thought it was a great story. I thought it would connect.
JM: Yeah. Writers always think that. Not always true, is it?
KK: No, indeed.
JM: Will you start submitting to real places, please?
KK: Yes. I guess.
JM: Will you quit fucking around and focus on editing those novels?
KK: Yes.
JM: Good. Now get out of here, chump. I’m sick of talking about you.
Did they reject it at the pitch level, or did they actually review the full piece? Any feedback or just a boilerplate rejection?
They rejected the full piece. And no comments. Form rejection. I’m actually … I don’t know. I guess I’m still kind of shocked, to be honest. I gave that story everything I had.
Maybe next time.
Huh, I’m rather surprised too. I thought it would make more sense if they rejected it on the pitch. I mean, there are a few things in there I can see people not liking, but it was a high quality piece. Sucks that it was a form rejection, because I’m kind of at a loss as to what criteria they would have rejected it on.
To be perfectly candid, I started to get a bad feeling when I saw a few refunds pop up in my sales information. Also seeing some three-star reviews around the Internet … I don’t know. Maybe it just doesn’t work for a lot of people.
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