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How rejection silence erodes confidence

I sent my manuscript to twelve agents six months ago and the silence is making me question whether I should have written it at all

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The absence of response can feel more devastating than explicit rejection because it denies the work any recognition of its existence.

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