Blathering: Rejections

Just learned that the (small) publishing house I’ve had the anthology with is not picking up the rights for another year, due to poor sales.

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That smarts, I’ll admit. Even though I was secretly looking forward to the day I could cancel our contract and regain the rights to sell the book, I was thinking I’d be the one doing the canceling. This feels more like rejection.

On the plus side, this publisher is quite small, so they don’t have a good publicity budget (read: none!) and didn’t push the book like a bigger company was. Now, I can try to shop the thing around along with my novel, as in “If you like this, I’ve got an anthology with the same characters that I can regain the rights to….”

So … overall, probably a good thing, even though it’s going to mean the book won’t be in print after April, 2015 unless I can find a new publisher.

Any of you experience anything similar to this? How’d you handle it?