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Old 08-13-2007, 11:36 PM   #1
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Old 08-14-2007, 12:18 AM   #2
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...maybe they bother because you sent them a query?

Just a guess.

But congrats on landing a great agent! WTG!
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Old 08-14-2007, 12:26 AM   #3
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Oh, I've been there.

A story I've told before:

I got the only personalized rejection I received in the whole process when my book was on submission.

It was a wam-doozer, too. That agent HATED IT. I've always felt like there was something a bit...malevolent in that rejection, but I'll never know. (I had written her a month or so before telling her that I was going with another agent; maybe there's something there.) Nor do I really care.
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Old 08-14-2007, 12:34 AM   #4
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Old 08-14-2007, 12:55 AM   #5
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I got a rejection after I'd already signed else where. That was the first time my heart didn't sank upon opening my email or mail box. So glad to be off that rollercoaster. Now, on to the ride of my life: trying to nail down the publishers who are seriously considering 2 of my MS, but haven't signed on the dotted line...yet.
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Good show, Barb. Rejections that make you smile smugly must be rare. Treasure those.

CONGRATULATIONS, by the way!

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Old 08-14-2007, 03:56 PM   #8
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That was sweet Babrique. And Will's stories too. Those are the only kind of rejections I want to see, ever.
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So I did... three months ago. Now, it seems to me that any agency which can't get the lead out enough to say "No thanks" in less than three months when forty others managed to do so... well, let's just say I'm glad I went elsewhere.

3 months isn't unusual. It could take longer.

But congratulations. The best of luck with the agent.
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Old 08-16-2007, 05:22 AM   #10
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Congratulations on the agent! That's wonderful. And good luck with the next part of the process of getting published.
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