{"id":42,"date":"2007-10-09T16:15:38","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T21:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/09\/another-rejection\/"},"modified":"2007-10-09T16:15:38","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T21:15:38","slug":"another-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/09\/another-rejection\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Yet Another Rejection Letter, the premise of my novel is &#8220;intriguing&#8221; but not right for an agent I was rather hoping <em>would<\/em> want to represent me.   Did my homework on her and she&#8217;s got some good authors and herself has a good rep and does represent this particular genre.  The letter also said that she (the agent&#8217;s assistant who wrote the letter) encouraged me to continue submitting my query to other agents.    Very kind and encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, another personal rather than form rejection slip.  At least, I <em>think<\/em> it was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I suppose if my next one is a critique, I should celebrate and then get to work revising the novel.  I do see a trend in the personal comments already, so that&#8217;s a good sign.<\/p>\n<p>I know they say when you start getting personal letters rather than forms it&#8217;s a good sign, but you know, that advice was written back before word processors.  I have to wonder if that&#8217;s quite the same now, as you can write a perfectly original-looking &#8220;Fill in the Blank&#8221; template.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Yet Another Rejection Letter, the premise of my novel is &#8220;intriguing&#8221; but not right for an agent I was rather hoping would want to represent me. Did my homework on her and she&#8217;s got some good authors and herself has a good rep and does represent this particular genre. The letter also said &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/09\/another-rejection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Rejection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}