The easiest thing in the world to do, is to do nothing. To not be creative. To not chase a dream. To not try and achieve a sporting achievement. It is easier to sit at home and watch others achieve their dreams while your own life ticks by. But you have chosen not to take that easy road. The mundane road.
You have chosen to be courageous.
You have listened to that dream inside — that calling. And you have taken steps to achieve it. For that, you are an amazing human being.
The path you have chosen lays down testers along the way, they are called rejections.
They are not there to break you. They are merely there to test you. To see how much you want your dream. To see how courageous you truly are. To find that inner strength deep inside you to overcome these rejections in the pursuit of your dream.
As you endeavour to do all of this, it is easier for us to stand by and watch you struggle with these rejections. To not reach out our hand in support. But like you, we have no interest in the easy road. We chose a different path too. We strode away from apathy. We chose to help.
LitRejections was launched to offer a haven for the rejected.
A place where you can find the inspiration and strength to persevere. Your dream is important. We are here to light your way to help you keep chasing it. And when you achieve that dream; to still be there to help you achieve your next dream. You are not alone in any of this.
The colour palette of our name reflects the core values of our community. Orange is a colour that often symbolises ambition, creativity, and positivity. The cool shade of blue is the colour that represents perseverance on the colour wheel. Our colours define us.
As a platform, we gained a huge readership from our early days in 2012. Both with our website traffic, and our social media, which was predominately focused on Twitter, as that is the platform we first sprang to life on. In recent months that platform has changed, so we are now launching our new Facebook and Instagram.
As technology advanced, so did the capabilities of websites. So, our first website, which had a classic sepia aesthetic inspired by the literary magazines of the 1920s, and had served us well for a decade, needed a revamp. We took the decision to take the whole site offline in summer 2023 to put in the hours to redesign a new look website to make it easier for you all to read our content on the go. During this time, we have also been redesigning the layout of our popular articles with new media content to make them even easier for you to read on your mobile devices. We still have lots more of our articles to redo in this way, which means more content every week.
One of the very first articles we wrote, Bestsellers Initially Rejected became one of the first we have redesigned for this new website.
Upon its first launch our article went viral, and can be found all over the internet, referenced on hundreds of blogs, magazines online and print, and even on television.
The interest in this post at the time made us wonder how we could further help, particular the writers who frequently messaged us saying how much it had inspired them. So, we launched our Agency Database. A detailed listing of agencies around the world that are looking for the next talents. We created this by visiting the websites of all of them. We did the work so the writers didn’t have to, and they could focus on their writing instead. Then whenever they were ready to submit, they could access our Agency Database to begin that journey.
Our Agency Database has now been completely revamped and remains free to access.
It was extensively updated in August 2023 by visiting all of the agency websites again to garner the very latest submission details. Furthermore, our Agency Database will expand with agencies representing all creative fields.
By stepping through the LitRejections door, you are joining creatives from all over the world, who work in all creative fields.
LitRejections is followed by writers, journalists, agents, presenters, actors, filmmakers, athletes, photographers, presenters, models, and much more.
Therefore, the articles on our site will always cover a range of creative fields, especially as there is now a great deal of creative crossovers — actors and models who also write books, athletes who are presenters, and authors who are also film producers.
Welcome to LitRejections. A community to help creates persevere through rejection.