How to deal with pitch rejection

Steph discusses how to Keep Calm and Pitch On

You’ve spent half a day reading the back catalogue of a publication and polishing a pitch idea you know is absolutely perfect for them. After a dozen rewrites and grammar checks, you finally hit send on that gorgeous 300-word synopsis of what you know will be a brilliant, likely award-winning story.

And then…well, nothing. Nada. No response.

Suddenly, y…