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Posting agent rejection letters
I just read this blog post by an agent:
http://wyliemerrick.blogspot.com/200...k_archive.html
he says that one of the reasons agents don't comment about rejected queries but just send form rejections is that their rejections have been posted online without their permission on blogs, writer sites or forums.
In another thread in the Goals and Accomplishments forum Jenna wrote about her concern that one agent is publishing excerpts from query letters. I guess htis is the other side of the story. And I can understand this well. I once wrote something about an agent, naming her by name, and out of the blue she actually came and replied to my post; though I hadn't quoted her, I did say negative things about her and mention her by name. That taught me a big lesson.
So it goes both ways. Just as we don't like having out query letters posted openly on agent blogs, I think we need to be careful about what we say here. Most of all, I think we should not mention an agent by name when quoting fromn rejection letters. Agents do google their own names and AW often comes up on page one.
I just read this blog post by an agent:
http://wyliemerrick.blogspot.com/200...k_archive.html
he says that one of the reasons agents don't comment about rejected queries but just send form rejections is that their rejections have been posted online without their permission on blogs, writer sites or forums.
In another thread in the Goals and Accomplishments forum Jenna wrote about her concern that one agent is publishing excerpts from query letters. I guess htis is the other side of the story. And I can understand this well. I once wrote something about an agent, naming her by name, and out of the blue she actually came and replied to my post; though I hadn't quoted her, I did say negative things about her and mention her by name. That taught me a big lesson.
So it goes both ways. Just as we don't like having out query letters posted openly on agent blogs, I think we need to be careful about what we say here. Most of all, I think we should not mention an agent by name when quoting fromn rejection letters. Agents do google their own names and AW often comes up on page one.
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