The Oldest Rejection?

Ann_Mayburn · Oct 9, 2011

Yesterday I got a rejection from a publisher on a partial that they had requested last year...this is after I emailed them in January to let them know it was no longer available...and five months after the book has already been published and earning me royalties.

I was wondering if anyone else has had a rejection pop up from 'beyond the grave' so to speak. Longest I've heard from another author friend was a request for a partial three years after she sent the query to an agent.

regdog · Oct 9, 2011

I received a rejection from an agent a little over one year from querying

taylormillgirl · Oct 9, 2011

One of my writer friends just received a rejection on an agented submission from two years ago. :-( That blows my mind.

K. Taylor · Oct 9, 2011

Wow, talk about zombie e-mail.

Alwaysinspired · Oct 9, 2011

Ann_Mayburn said:
Yesterday I got a rejection from a publisher on a partial that they had requested last year...this is after I emailed them in January to let them know it was no longer available...and five months after the book has already been published and earning me royalties.

I was wondering if anyone else has had a rejection pop up from 'beyond the grave' so to speak. Longest I've heard from another author friend was a request for a partial three years after she sent the query to an agent.

Boy, they're really on the ball, LOL. Happy to hear you got your book published and that it's doing well. This particular scenario hasn't happened to me, but I did send out lots of queries for my now published novel, so now you got me wondering if it will

blacbird · Oct 9, 2011

God, sent to Adam in the Garden of Eden.

caw

Miss Plum · Oct 9, 2011

Ann_Mayburn said:
Yesterday I got a rejection from a publisher on a partial that they had requested last year...this is after I emailed them in January to let them know it was no longer available...and five months after the book has already been published and earning me royalties.

That's hilarious.

It's too bad it wasn't a request; you could have sent them the book. "Here ya go, requested materials!"

Sage · Oct 11, 2011

I once got a request from a query I sent almost exactly a year before.

I have a full out there that's 14 months old. I had actually forgotten about it until the agency's thread popped up in my subscribed threads and I had to remember why I had subscribed, lol

Erin · Oct 11, 2011

Last week I received a snail mail rejection from an agent on an 18-month-old query. Guess she didn't want my stamp to go to waste.

I have 2 fulls out to agents that are 2 years old now....

Drachen Jager · Oct 11, 2011

I had an e-rejection on an 18 month old query, and a request for a partial after about 14 months once.

Filigree · Oct 11, 2011

Agents have had your full for 2 years and not replied? They're not interested, or they have lost the full. Did you have any indication of time-frames when you sent the full?

The Oldest Rejection?

Ann_Mayburn

Smutty McTitters

regdog

The Scavengers

taylormillgirl

Hopeless Romantic

K. Taylor

Bah Humbug

Alwaysinspired

blacbird

Miss Plum

Sage

Our Lady of Parentheticals

Erin

Listening to my other selves

Drachen Jager

Professor of applied misanthropy

Filigree

Mildly Disturbing