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Yay! I got my first rejection letter.
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: tagnizkur on August 18, 2008, 05:25:48 PM ---Makes me want to start sending out so I can get rejected at to...
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caution :-) On a website I found out that one agent was looking for a large historic novel. As a whim, I sent it off with my three sci fi queries I was sending to agents. I got bounced back quickly on the sci fi. The rejection on the monster historic novel took forever! I sweated it daily ,as the work is a huge chaotic mess that is so far from sending out. The longer it got, the shorter I chewed my nails.
Thankfully a great deal later, I got the rejection letter I expected all along. It was lovely and they told me that they had decided to go with a published author wanting to break into a new field. The sweat and worry wasn't worth it. Plus I felt that I was misrepresenting myself and my work to the agent. I vowed to never, ever send a query on a whim for something that I'd be embarrased to send in if requested..
So send in, but beware they might actually want to SEE it! It would be horrid to get a request and then look unprofessional by explaining it wasn't ready. :-)
tagnizkur:
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on August 18, 2008, 11:34:12 PM ---caution :-) On a website I found out that one agent was looking for a large historic novel. As a whim, I sent it off with my three sci fi queries I was sending to agents. I got bounced back quickly on the sci fi. The rejection on the monster historic novel took forever! I sweated it daily ,as the work is a huge chaotic mess that is so far from sending out. The longer it got, the shorter I chewed my nails.
Thankfully a great deal later, I got the rejection letter I expected all along. It was lovely and they told me that they had decided to go with a published author wanting to break into a new field. The sweat and worry wasn't worth it. Plus I felt that I was misrepresenting myself and my work to the agent. I vowed to never, ever send a query on a whim for something that I'd be embarrased to send in if requested..
So send in, but beware they might actually want to SEE it! It would be horrid to get a request and then look unprofessional by explaining it wasn't ready. :-)
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Truthfully, i wouldn't even know were to begin. The publishers I have worked with are small time magazines and friends of friends...
Spectacular Sameth:
I got a second one. Surprisingly it's from the same date as the other one I sent. Why are the more recent ones sending the rejections first? Is the silence of the previous ones rejections or just busy agents?
meg_evonne:
One agent implied that the agents tend to drop to nothing and don't work through Aug, starting fresh in Sept. Maybe they are on vacation? Or getting kids into schools, etc?
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