I just got my first rejection 30 minutes after I sent off my query. It was a form rejection. Blah! No dear author even and no name or personalization. Rejections are tough but for some reason this just made me laugh. Yes, I can be random like that. For one I sent out 5 query letters and got 1 rejection. I guess there is something wrong with my query if I don't get a partial request after 10 rejections or no replies right? But I didn't send out 10 query letters yet. I guess I am planning to. The only thing I want to know is if I will need to bo going back to the drawing board with my query...I hope not lol. Truthfully though I am not sad or unhappy or even mad because this is just the beginning of my query journey. So how did your first rejection feel?
Pretty shitty, but of course I had no earthly idea what the hell I was doing.
ReplyDeleteHave you had anyone (see: other writers) critique your query letter?
Yeah I actually have matthew. It was on the Bransforums and I posted quite a few revisions and got good feedback. I hope its not the query but if it is I am probably going to post it on Evil Editor or something...
ReplyDeleteNow you know why I'm think of sending queries as waging war. At least, rejections don't draw blood.
ReplyDeleteWell yes I know Kay. Sending querys is a waging war but I had done it before, gotten rejections, revised and now am doing it again, only now I have a much better story and better query (I am unsure on this one...). Today I got 2 more rejections and these all coming from agents that aren't overally looking for fantasy. They take it but its not their main interest which was ethical non-fiction. Its hard to say if it was my query or the fact that they don't even want my genre or idea. How wll I ever know? I think I am out to get more comments on my query before I start to send again.
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