It certainly doesn't, but they used one :D The entire letter was just a puffed-up form of "we don't feel we're the right agency". Anyway, I'm out.
Been there, done that, bought the tshirt.
Yeah, I can't say I put a lot of faith in that sentiment. In fact, given what remarkably different disciplines buisness writing and genre fiction...
Oh yes. I'm kinda bummed, I had high hopes for this agency. Not too high, though, all they asked for was a querry and a SASE, so it's not like the...
So after my last rejection, I think I got basically the polar-opposite. This time, it is a full-page form rejection letter, printed on...
It's a great concept for those of you with the money and the time, the rest of us are kind of stuck with our querry letters and endless postage....
It's all something of a mystery, but getting published as a complete unknown is definitely tough. If this round of querries fails, I'm just going...
I honestly don't have a whole lot of faith in that whole "your manuscript is the most important part", otherwise terrible books wouldn't get...
Just out of curiosity, how much damage is a bad/improperly-written bio likely to do? The one I ended up sending was about 3 short paragraphs and...
You got a point there :P
Thanks for all the tips. I will definitely say that writing and editing are two seperate things, but then I've got quite a bit more finished work...
So we've all got a billion ways to get out of writer's block, anybody got any tips for editor's block? I've always got 5 or 6 projects on the...
That's not a bad idea, though I worry it might be a bit off-putting. Personally, I'm getting so sick of the rejections, I'm about to up and...
I think they don't want to get specific because they don't want to burn any bridges. There could be any number of reasons why they're rejecting...
Separate names with a comma.
