My Rejection Story

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“The First Person Who Rejects Your Book Is You” with Non-fiction Book Coach Stacy Ennis

June 18, 2026

What if the first person to reject your book isn't a publisher — it's you?Alice is joined by Stacy Ennis — number-one bestselling author, founder of the Nonfiction Book School, and a writer who launched her career by deliberately collecting 29 rejections in 30 days. She talks about the second-grade rejection that branded her the "bad kid" in a tiny Christian school, the parent who bullied her in empty hallways, and the chip on her shoulder she's used ever since. But what...

“I Wanted to Live”—Racial Trauma, Alcoholism, & Coming Home to Herself, with Sabrina Pace-Humphreys

June 10, 2026

What if the rejection that shapes you most isn't the one the world hands you — it's the one you learn to hand yourself?Alice is joined by Sabrina Pace-Humphreys — British ultra runner, author of *Black Sheep*, and co-founder of Black Trail Runners, the charity diversifying the UK's outdoor spaces. She grew up the only Black girl in a small Cotswold town; her Afro shoddily cut against a Jackson Five photo because no one knew how to do her hair. But what makes her story land isn'...

100 Rejections Later: How I Learned to Pitch

June 03, 2026

What if the rejection you're dreading isn't the editorial rejection — it's the pitch you never bothered to fix? In this solo episode of My Rejection Story, Alice goes from her earliest days as a student journalist — including a mortifying ghosting that ended with an editor telling her it would be "ill-advised, now and in her future career" to ever give an editor a deadline — to running a PR agency placing clients in HBR, Forbes, Business Insider, and the world's bigg...