I submitted the manuscript for my next book!
It's a collection of folktales about misunderstood / underappreciated animals. Bats, sharks, wolves, rats, spiders, etc. I managed to find cool stories for each, and in every one of them the animal is portrayed in a positive light.
It was one heck of a research project, and I really enjoyed it 
@TarkabarkaHolgy Fabulous! I hope we all get to read it!
That sounds like a cool project. As a child I used to read loads of folk tale books and Aesop's fables. 
@TarkabarkaHolgy congrats! Heck of an achievement! 
@TarkabarkaHolgy where and mostly how did you submitted it?
@TaraBitha To the Hungarian publisher that published my previous books :)
@TarkabarkaHolgy Cool, i am always trying to send my work to Publishers here, but always get turned down :(
@TaraBitha Yeah, that part is stressful... I lucked into my publisher. I ran a blog series on feminist folktales, and some art school students used it for an exhibit. I met my future editor at the exhibit opening :D She was looking for someone to write folktale collections for them. So I never actually queried...
@TarkabarkaHolgy lucky you...
I had back to back rejection letters going.
Its not enough {genre}
Now its to much {genre}
@TaraBitha Yeah I think fiction is a whole lot harder to break into. Especially because a lot of publishers look for genre conventions that are sellable. My friends who write fiction struggle with the same problem.
Anansi the spider? I read a translation of some of that ... (so long ago I can't even estimate it). "The hat shaking dance" comes to mind, though.
@TarkabarkaHolgy Are Virginia Oppossums covered, too?
@cosmos4u Sadly, no. I didn't include indigenous tales and the good ones were all of those