holy six hour rejection, batman...

tiny · Jul 17, 2011

I have never been rejected as fast as I was today. Six hours. Wow. I had to laugh except I was hoping for at least a week to prepare another submission now that I have nothing floating in the ether.

Crap. But funny.

Back to it.

Flur · Jul 17, 2011

Was the rejection just for the query or did you have a full/partial out?

tiny · Jul 17, 2011

It was a short story submission. I'm trying to keep one out there all the time while I polish the novel up. Not doing so well.

Flur · Jul 17, 2011

Hah, well.. better luck next time

Phaeal · Jul 18, 2011

I've had several agent rejections on queries in well under an hour. Six hours? Man, what a slacker.

SteveCordero · Jul 18, 2011

{{{Tiny}}}

But, I had to admit, that I Usain Bolt that. Years ago I had a 15 second rejection.

Little1 · Jul 18, 2011

WOW Steve, 15 seconds???? That was some fast reader.

SteveCordero · Jul 18, 2011

Thanks, Little. It had sample pages too.

Either the agent was a super fast reader or I had serious suckage in the query hook. LOL

Red-Green · Jul 18, 2011

My record is 3 mins on a query rejection. Thanks for being so efficient, Jon@th@n Ly0ns.

Anne Lyle · Jul 18, 2011

It probably depends on when your query reaches the agent. I think mine must work through his slushpile in the evening, because I sent my query when I got home from work and it only took him ninety minutes to get back to me - and the second reply (request for full) was also late evening.

Phaeal · Jul 19, 2011

Seriously, if you hang around at Query Letter Hell, you'll find yourself rejecting some queries within the first ten seconds. Like agents, you know what you like and what you don't like just that quickly.

Could be you miss a diamond, but if your pile of rocks is huge, you might not worry about it so much.

gayle12 · Jul 22, 2011

Well, now I feel like an amateur. My quickest rejection was 2 days, and I thought that was pretty impressive. I love that you're bouncing back so quickly. If you find yourself flagging, just think of all the writing/editing/market finding time you have on the piece that you probably weren't expecting. Best of luck with the edit/resubmit/whatever comes next.

Gayle

AshRose · Aug 22, 2011

Not the fastest one but my first in my second round of querying came in less than 24 hours to an agent I painstakingly researched for weeks so that I could personally tailor my letter to her. That rejection made me feel so worthless and like I could spend all the time in the world editing and reworking and it would be a waste.

Later on the agent's blog I found a clue as to why my story was rejected and counted myself pretty lucky, but I also wonder if I was just telling myself that to not think anything else.

Filigree · Aug 23, 2011

I've had queries and submissions bounce in 15 minutes. I'd rather have that than the dreaded no-answer.

Mutive · Aug 23, 2011

I'm feeling kind of sad now. My slowest was 2 weeks...

But it was through postal mail, so I like to think that transport ate up some of that time. *sigh*

But, honestly, I'd really rather hear and get it sent off somewhere else than be stuck in submission limbo. Ugh.

kidcharlemagne · Aug 23, 2011

I've had a 2 min rejection on a query.

Paul · Aug 23, 2011

I had a rejection before I even sent it.

beat that.

(yes, i rejected it before i sent it. *sigh*. it's that time of night)

alvin123 · Aug 23, 2011

Mine was actually around 6 hours too. (but of another matter.)
Do you mind sharing the name of the mag? Or PMing me it.

Paul · Aug 25, 2011

update.
got the one hour rejection!!!

yippee!

i finally feel like a writer....

holy six hour rejection, batman...

tiny

riding the sun

Flur

tiny

riding the sun

Flur

Phaeal

Whatever I did, I didn't do it.

SteveCordero

Pit Livin' & Purgatory Dreamin'

Little1

Hakuna Matata

SteveCordero

Pit Livin' & Purgatory Dreamin'

Red-Green

KoalaKoalaKoala!

Anne Lyle

Fantastic historian

Phaeal

Whatever I did, I didn't do it.

gayle12

Write. Edit. Publish. Repeat.

AshRose

Unofficial Expert on Angels

Filigree

Mildly Disturbing

Mutive

Blissfully Clueless

kidcharlemagne

Paul

alvin123

Author of Hell to Pay (Blood for S)

Paul