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Old 05-08-2010, 08:38 PM   #26
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Woke up to a rejection from a partial today, the first partial I’ve ever gotten a request for. I don’t blink when it comes to form rejections from queries, but this one stings. It always stings more the first time, I guess.
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I've queried every single agent who says she takes my kind of stuff and is currently accepting queries. So in the past week I started confetti-ing the outfield -- the ones who are closed to queries, the ones who don't really say whether they do my kind of project or not -- and I've gotten quite a few more Rs. I'd say about five more in the past week.

Then one agent gave me some good news (she liked it and she's passing it on to a colleague for a second read). Haha, among all those Rs it ain't so much! I'm not so tense, my expectations are under control!
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Old 05-08-2010, 09:25 PM   #28
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Decided to query a couple more agents

Went to querytracker, found my nice list of carefully researched agents. Re-checked their blogs / subs guidelines etc. Clicked to update status - query sent. Click 'return to list'.


Querytracker has lost my list!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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Old 05-08-2010, 09:57 PM   #29
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I got one yesterday! One of those dreaded Rs that mean "no" for the entire agency, so that stings a little.

Thankfully my luck is perking up a little elsewhere: I have a partial out right now, and another agent sent me some suggestions to make my opening stronger with an offer to resubmit once I made the changes. But I'm still waiting on fifteen more queries, so there's plenty of time for more rejection...
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Old 05-08-2010, 10:41 PM   #30
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I sent out two waves of queries, four the first time and six the second. I received three speedy rejection, one request for a full and now am waiting for the results of the second wave. I don't know how you all do it. It makes me want to scream, Reject me already, so I can go on with my life!

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Old 05-09-2010, 07:45 AM   #31
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Ten! Wait until you hit a hundred.

I got two rejections today. Apparently agents come to work on a Saturday just to reject my work!

HA! Beat that!
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Old 05-09-2010, 05:09 PM   #32
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Oh hells yeah. I'm up around a hundred right now. Really...it doesn't bother you quite as much after awhile. I think I sent off more than ten in my first batch.
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Old 05-09-2010, 09:30 PM   #33
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Thanks...I think that makes me feel better. Only ninety more to go before I toughen up, eh?
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Old 05-09-2010, 09:38 PM   #34
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Received three from publishers just this last week. It was expected--have to weed out the masses before I get to the true prospects. Nothing surprising--just forms.

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Old 05-09-2010, 11:25 PM   #35
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Okay got my list back (thanks Kaitie ) and sent a few more out. No more rejections. Yet.
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Ten! Wait until you hit a hundred.

I got two rejections today. Apparently agents come to work on a Saturday just to reject my work!

HA! Beat that!
I bow down before you.

Although one of my rejections was timestamped 7:01 a.m. (their time). I think they rejected me before they went to the bathroom.
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Old 05-10-2010, 08:32 AM   #37
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My first Saturday rejection was timestamped at 5:57 AM. No joke.
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Old 05-10-2010, 09:03 AM   #38
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Three snail mail rejections today. You know...come to think of it, I've never gotten a request from a snail mailed query. Odd. Or not so odd haha. I don't get a ton in the first place.

Anyway, one of them actually said, "We don't find your story to be salable." Yeouch!
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I haven't hit the snail mail circuit yet. Monday, maybe Tuesday.

I've had the best luck with forms, 2 out of 5 forms I've filled out have resulted in a request. I don't know if my standard query is bad or if high tech firms are just more in synch with my style.

E-mail has not been good to me, very few requests coming in considering how many I sent out.
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My first Saturday rejection was timestamped at 5:57 AM. No joke.
Oh yeah? Well I got rejections from agents I didn't even query. James Van Praaghe called me up and said "That novel you're planning -- don't do it." Microsoft had to make a whole new e-mail client for me called "Look Out!"
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You know, I've gotten requests from both forms I did, too. Weird lol. I've got a tough sell, but I'm glad to at least be getting something.
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I'm not sure that my book is a tough sell... It should be fairly easy, maybe I'm just not selling it right.

I have yet to hear back from ANY of my MS requesters. Hopefully there's someone reading it right now who will e-mail me soon with the good news.
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Chapter requests from one. Two Rs--one was a full from a medium house, and the other an R on the query from a smaller joint.

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Chapter requests from one. Two Rs--one was a full from a medium house, and the other an R on the query from a smaller joint.

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"I really enjoyed the story, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to pass."

First rejection on this story and I had it out to another pub within the hour. *grin*
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"I really enjoyed the story, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to pass."

First rejection on this story and I had it out to another pub within the hour. *grin*
You do exclusives? So far I've been studiously avoiding anyone who wants an exclusive.

But I'm thinking why bother giving anyone an exclusive?

I mean if you get the offer from them then YAY. If you don't then so what?

If by some twist of fate you get an offer after you'd accepted some place else, then hey, it's just one editor that's mildly pissed at you and probably won't even remember your name in a week.
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I just took it to mean she sent it off again as soon as she got the rejection. I do that as well.

Anyway, one rejection for the day, and one full request! Woohoo. I haven't sent new ones yet, though. Working on my rewrite still (eek, full request!), but I think I'm gonna send all the rest of my snail mail possibilities off soon. Well, not all, but most. I've got a few from the same agency so obviously I won't do those at the same time.
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I got another three today (they've been coming in packs lately. It's weird haha). All saying basically the same thing, too. Maybe agents are sharing forms.
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I got another three today (they've been coming in packs lately. It's weird haha). All saying basically the same thing, too. Maybe agents are sharing forms.
The last couple of Rs I've gotten had misspellings and typos. I wonder if agents have some sort of Reject-o-matic software that creates errors to make the Rs look individually written.
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