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Apr. 11th, 2009 08:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
megwritesWoke up this morning to a nicely worded, personal rejection in my inbox. Not from Quick!Agent though. This was from another agent, who basically said that the project was good, but she wasn't quite sure about it and didn't have the time to get sure because she was really busy.
Fair enough.
At least I know my query letter is working, because I didn't get a form letter from her, I got a handwritten (well, handtyped) rejection. Which means it was obviously something she gave a lot of thought to.
And in her defense, I queried her knowing that most of her client list was moving in the direction of urban fantasy or non-genre, but she did have a couple of somewhat high fantasy sales to her name, so I gave it a shot.
That makes 3 rejections, and two requests for more stuff.
Frankly, that's a way better ratio than I was anticipating. I was anticipating a 1:10 ratio of form letter rejections to requests that I stop abusing the English language and step away from the keyboard.
Fair enough.
At least I know my query letter is working, because I didn't get a form letter from her, I got a handwritten (well, handtyped) rejection. Which means it was obviously something she gave a lot of thought to.
And in her defense, I queried her knowing that most of her client list was moving in the direction of urban fantasy or non-genre, but she did have a couple of somewhat high fantasy sales to her name, so I gave it a shot.
That makes 3 rejections, and two requests for more stuff.
Frankly, that's a way better ratio than I was anticipating. I was anticipating a 1:10 ratio of form letter rejections to requests that I stop abusing the English language and step away from the keyboard.
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Date: 2009-04-11 10:01 pm (UTC)