One of my favorite rejection form rejection notes I did not even recognize as a form the first time I saw it. Only when I sent the same agent another query for a completely different novel — and got the same exact note — did I realize what was going on.
"This wasn't as compelling as I thought it would be," the agent said.
As an author this is a bit deflating of course. Not compelling? Hell, I thought it was jam packed with compelling.
But at least the agent read the short sample you sent, you think. That is better than nothing. Then you toddle away to make your work more "compelling," however the hell you do that.
Then I got the same note for the second novel.
Now is it a form letter, or is all my crap just non-compelling? Well, I admit, the latter is a distinct possibility, but it sounds too fishy for me.
Besides, I think I am damn compelling.
Yours in rejection,
Phil
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