Gotta be a record...

[DB]

Just got a response back from a May 15, 2003 query. It was my original letter with "NO" scribbled across the top. No form letter, slip, or card--just "NO".

It took her 189 days to come up with such an eloquent, thoughtful, and encouraging response. Some of these "agents" need a serious course of Manners 101.

[Pam]

DB,
I think I would have rather not recieved anything at all than to get a response like that.
Pam

[alex omalley]

How horribly rude.

I've wanted to keep a list of really snotty agents but I seem to be the only one. If your willing to name her/him, I'd like to start the damn list and offenses.

Alex

[DB]

Actually, instead of exposing her rudeness to the masses and cutting off her flow of queries, I'm hoping she'll continue getting more and more of them and eventually suffocate under a mountain of paper. This process is bringing out my vindictive side.

[Robert Raven]

Record? Not a chance, at least in terms of time of response. My personal champ is 18 months. Several more at longer than a year. Several more, never.

[mmorey]

I got a "Not for us, thanks anyway" from a publisher, two-and-a-half years later. Six months per word.

Beat that one, suckas.

mmorey