How to Write a Novella That Gets Rejections

One of the best rejections I ever got was for the, what was the novella at the time. The 1% of authors get agents and 1% of the agent submissions get deals. It's a very small number, which is amazing considering the millions of books that are published every year. But okay, I'm getting aside. After that happened, I sat down with the Sanford novel and a Lee Child novel, a Tammy Hoke novel, Erica Spindler, Alex Caba and a couple others. And I deconstructed the novels and looked at how does it open? Who is coming into the scene? Why are they there? What is the plot point?"