There are things writers do: eat, dream, write if the muse is good to us–-and handle rejection. Ellen shares ways to cope and deal with literary rejection.

Colleen Story shares ways to handle when we feel we can control our writing futures, even when the proverbial sh— happens.

Often there are obstacles to publishers' acceptance of our work. Sometimes, we unknowingly cause those obstacles. Ellen Buikema shares some workarounds.

Karen DeBonis shows a creative (and positive) way to handle literary agent rejections.

The alternate title for this post could have been "How I Found My Publisher Through Rejection." K. Maze shares the lessons she learned on her path to publication.