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On Querying Agents: What’s a Personalized Rejection?

How do you know that a rejection is a sign to keep going? The personalized rejection can give you some hope.

With 113 rejections in this last round of querying, I’ve developed some theories about what constitutes an authentic and individualized response versus a template goodbye.

So what’s a personalized rejection? A personalized rejection

• gives you a sense of what’s working in your manuscript;
• what’s not working for the agent or editor, that is truly out of your control;
• and/or helps you see you might just need to carry on.

Here are some form responses and some personalized ones. ...



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Original post date: March 4, 2019