Nice start to the day....NOT!!!!

That's one of the more compelling arguments against getting email on your phone. At least you could wait til a time of your choosing to be served rejection...

Sorry, Richard. We've all been there. It still sucks.

Brush it off. One day you'll look back on this and laugh. Or something like that.

Hugs.

I wouldn't read too much into "didn't draw me in." It could be form, it could be just a polite way to say it's not her cup of tea, and so on. It's just as (or more likely) to be something like that than a serious commentary on a flaw with the novel. The beginning might be fine but still not draw someone in, and a person can be not drawn in for several reasons.

Have you put it up on SYW or gotten critiques on it?

I do agree, though, that first in the morning rejections suck. I agree with turning off email alerts. Honestly, I gave myself once or twice a day to check my email. Otherwise I'd have gone crazy checking every five minutes.

Bit sucky. I hope tomorrow will be better

Rejection first thing in the morning is lousy.

Richard Paolinelli said:

I should have gone with the first instinct. I can very easily write 5-6 pages on the first murder so the next request for pages will have a much better hook and not have to do much of a rewrite on what follows at all.

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Off you go then....

Hehehe I know that...
*phone chimes at 8 in the morning on a Monday*
My SO: Aren't you going to check that?
Me:... at this hour, it can only be a rejection. So no.

Seriously, I've never received any requests before noon. Ever.
And now that I have several fulls out, every time I hear that damn chime thingy I get a nosebleed.

Don't think of this as a rejection, think of it as an agent kindly telling you that your instincts were right. Smile at the good news, and then sit down and get the opening the way you thought it should be.

This is why I didn't want email notifications. I wanted to face the damn rejections in my own good time.

My husband's phone says "DROID" everytime he gets an e-mail. I complained that it was really annoying so now he changed it to Dr. Who's Dalek's "EXTERMINATE", which is creepier and more how I picture a rejection notice should go. Anyway, Richard, I'm sorry for the rejection. It sucks.

My phone chirp's Navi from The Legend of Zelda's "HEY!" every time I get an e-mail to the querying inbox. At times, that can be a nerve-wracking noise.

I've had first-thing-in-the-morning rejections too. Not fun, but as long as they're form rejections I can just shrug 'em off. Only the personalised ones sting.

Richard Paolinelli said:

I am, I am. What has me a little down was this was the agent I really wanted to rep me. Feel a little disappointed in myself that I did not do a good enough job to impress her.

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I hear that. I think all of us have had those "I knew I should have done in that way" moments. Then you kick yourself in the rear end a few times, bang your head against the nearest hard surface once or twice, and move on.

Richard, I'm sorry! Rejection sucks. But it does sound like it confirmed your instinct, so that's a silver lining.

I always check my email on my iPhone first thing when I wake up. It's usually spam that didn't get caught in the right filter or a friend in a different timezone commenting on my Facebook. Or it's a rejection, which is a lovely encouragement to get up. Ugh.

Nicole River said:

Seriously, I've never received any requests before noon. Ever.
And now that I have several fulls out, every time I hear that damn chime thingy I get a nosebleed.

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ME NEITHER. And two of my full requests that stand out in my mind happened at like 10pm on a Friday night.

EMaree said:

My phone chirp's Navi from The Legend of Zelda's "HEY!" every time I get an e-mail to the querying inbox. At times, that can be a nerve-wracking noise.

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I should do this. It's a good idea. I recently got a response to an R&R and immediately archived it so that I could deal with it after my actual work was done. I hate getting all of my querying and submission responses in with my regular email because there's nothing like trying to do your paying job after you get a particularly gutting email. (I'm too lazy/busy for multiple email accounts.)

Anyone have an app that reads the e-mail and decides whether it's good or bad news before it notifies you? It could notify you off the good ones right away, and save the bad ones for after hours, and possibly start these with a "You might want to lock up any firearms you have, and take a stiff drink before you read this one."

That idea rings a bell, have you mentioned it here before?

It's not my cup of tea -- I don't trust software to decide the priority of things (GMail's priority inbox was useless to me), and I don't like holding back bad news. It just turns the e-mail into too big a deal. Better to just get it over with and move on.