Signed with Literary Manager - 1st Publisher Said "No"

I've spent quite some time researching publishers, days at the library...making lists of which publishers I thought would be open to my material.

My next step was to do the same with literary agents/managers. I felt that having a list of publishers first would help my meeting with representation because I would know who I was targeting and be able to ask them if they had ties to those particular publishers.

However before this little plan of mine was complete, I met who would now become my literary manager on one of those social networking sites of all things. I sent them the excerpts of my five complete manuscripts and within a week they had pitched me to a major publisher.

This week I found out the publisher said no...but that's just par for the course. I had no expectation that the first publisher to read my stuff was going to sign me. I'm continuing to refine my work and confident in the fact that I will find the right publisher, it may not be the first or the tenth one, but there will be one out there that "get it".