Rejection – NOT

First day of work was great. Realy cool people, really cool building, really cool new cubicle…

But a bit overshadowed by what happened when I got home. So you may recall that three weeks ago I received a short “Dear Writer” form R from one of the agents who’d requested my single title. Well, today, about three seconds after walking in the door from my first day at my new job, I got a phone call from said agent telling me that she was VERY interested in NV, was sending it out to a second reader, and wanted to talk to me about it. Well, I don’t think shocked is the word I’m looking for here. I listened to her, tried to take notes, asked her to get back to me about her decision, and all the time, the words going through my head were “WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?”

Three weeks ago, I took this agency off my flow chart. No longer was it “if so-and-so offers and what’s-her-face doesn’t before who’s-it gets back to me…” So to hear she was interested was like dropping chocolate in an egg mixture I’d just decided to make into fried chicken batter (forgive the lame metaphors, I was cooking dinner at the time).

She said that it was sent to me in mistake, which means her assistant opened my package,  handed the manuscript to the agent to read, and then mistakenly stuffed my SASE with a form R. What are the chances of that? Of course, I’ve heard these stories before, but I always thought they were urban legends. Writers whispering to each other in the dark, “They sent me the form R by mistake, I just know it! When they realize it, they’ll call me at once to tell me how much they love my book and how sorry they are for playing such a nasty trick on me! I know it. I know it…”

I mean, come on, that doesn’t actually happen, right?

Watch. Now she’ll reject me for real and I’ll get the chance to be disappointed all over again.

Int he meantime, it’s nice ot hear someone talking about how much they like your work and how they’d be interested in marketing it.