As most authors, and aspiring authors, know, it is standard procedure to send your manuscript to a publishing house (or agent) with a self-addressed, stamped envelope so that the manuscript-- which ...

Even the most successful people have to deal with rejection from time to time. Best-selling author J.K. Rowling recently tweeted that she pinned her first rejection letter to her kitchen wall because ...

Rejection letters will never provide happiness, but sometimes, if written with kindness, they can be helpful. At least one applicant to Duke’s graduate cognitive neuroscience admitting program felt ...

This spring, I watched my colleagues run away from their mailboxes. Like most soon-to-be humanities Ph.D.s, they would do anything to escape the onslaught of job rejection letters. Believing that good ...