Hello! I’m back with another post. I wanted to post an update about the Romance Includes You Mentorship that I and a lot of other authors participated in back in May of this year. Earlier this week, they have released the list of the people that have made the shortlist in the Romance Includes You Mentorship. I was kind of surprised that I didn’t receive the email about the shortlist but then again, I have way too many emails that I need to get rid of so I will be able to get the emails I want.
A part of me didn’t really want to find out if I had made the shortlist or not considering I have been rejected in the past so many times by Harlequin when it came to this mentorship program. But, I told myself that I will be okay even if I didn’t make the shortlist and come to find out, I was right. I was able to keep myself busy by focusing on other projects so that the rejection wouldn’t be as bad. So, I came to this website to officially say congratulations to the people that made the list. If you are interested in the candidates who made the list, you can click on the link here for more information.
What my future plans are when it comes to Harlequin and traditional publishing
Despite the constant rejection, I refuse to give up on traditional publishing in general. Once I finish up these projects that I will be self-publishing in the near future, I will be going back to the current project I have started in the Romance Includes You Mentorship and complete it and try to see if I will find some success with Harlequin on my own. I haven’t really done this since 2012 with An Orman’s Revenge. I am hoping that I will be more successful just by sending it in the regular way instead of submitting it through the mentorship.
We will see how it goes. Hopefully, I will be successful.
See you soon.
Dominique Gibson
