you go Rusty!! don't ever take no for an answer... some people have failed or been rejected over and over, until the right person saw them or their material... so don't take any rejection as a failing but look at it as one step closer to success... you have to learn how to market yourself, and get that material heard. here's a links I thought might inspire you...
“You might never fail on the scale I did, But it is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default"
- J.K Rowlings
http://getbusyliving...spite-failures/