Will Sleeping Beauty see the light of day?

I haven't been inspired with an idea on writing about Mormons so I'm going to give an update on my Sleeping Beauty retelling. The working title is A Kiss and a Curse. I started writing this novel in 2007. That's seven years ago. One of my daughters had a writing assignment for school to retell a fairy tale from another character's point of view. I suggested that she write the Sleeping Beauty story from the lady-in-waiting's point-of-view, a character who would lose everything during that 100 years of sleep. My daughter wrote about something else so I began, A Kiss and a Curse. I've completed 27 revisions, received at least 57 rejections, and am revising again. The most recent rejections have included positive comments but most say that they don't connect with Juliana, the main character. On New Year's Eve I asked my husband to read the first 10 pages of the novel. He's read the entire book--a previous version--and heard me talk about it a lot so he was well acquainted with the story and my journey in writing and getting it published. He reluctantly agreed to read it and then was very hesitant to say what he thought. But his suggestions were great. I've revised those first 10 pages many more than 27 times, so although I knew what I was trying to say, I was not conveying that to the reader. I'm revising again so I can submit to an agent who said she would look at it if I revised.

Now my concern is that the story is not "edgy" enough. But I'm not going to add vampires or demons or werewolves or premarital sex or a teenager girl who loves a fallen angel. I didn't want this post to sound desperate or whiny, but maybe that last remark is a bit cynical.

I've submitted my novel, Not of This World, to an agent and I am waiting to hear back.  For now, Juliana and I will work on waking Sleeping Beauty and breathing more life into Juliana's character.