Just wanted to share that there’s another, almost cheery side to the whole rejection business. I just received this letter today regarding a manuscript I co-wrote with my husband:
“Unfortunately, your query letter came in when we were moving offices and believe it or not we’re still unpacking boxes. A small stack of query letters got stashed in the wrong box which we thought were old files for storage. Consequently, you didn’t hear from me.
So I’m writing now to find out if you succeeded in finding an agent. If not, I’d love to read the first 50 pages.”
She even tried to email us, but since our address had changed it bounced back.
How’s that for encouragement? The funny thing was, we had just begun our third wave of queries for this particular work. Her letter came before we had sent anything out. We had probably queried her back in November ’04. So it goes to show, don’t give up hope, and remember to follow up on those errant queries!
“Unfortunately, your query letter came in when we were moving offices and believe it or not we’re still unpacking boxes. A small stack of query letters got stashed in the wrong box which we thought were old files for storage. Consequently, you didn’t hear from me.
So I’m writing now to find out if you succeeded in finding an agent. If not, I’d love to read the first 50 pages.”
She even tried to email us, but since our address had changed it bounced back.
How’s that for encouragement? The funny thing was, we had just begun our third wave of queries for this particular work. Her letter came before we had sent anything out. We had probably queried her back in November ’04. So it goes to show, don’t give up hope, and remember to follow up on those errant queries!