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E G Logan

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Just received a rejection today from a British agent (no names, unless you really want to know). My submission, which has been revised at least twice since then, was sent on 16.06.21.

It's a form rejection, into which my title has been cut and pasted in a different typeface. And, the icing on the unprofessional cake, the agent goes on to plug a "£99 How to Write a Novel Online Course and a range of editorial services – including full editorial reports, reports on the first third of your novel and copy-editing" from a "sister company".
 
Hmm... with just the most rudimentary bit of Internet delving (two clicks) I can see the inspiration for the M.O.

Quelle surprise... not. :angry-face:
 
Just received a rejection today from a British agent (no names, unless you really want to know). My submission, which has been revised at least twice since then, was sent on 16.06.21.

It's a form rejection, into which my title has been cut and pasted in a different typeface. And, the icing on the unprofessional cake, the agent goes on to plug a "£99 How to Write a Novel Online Course and a range of editorial services – including full editorial reports, reports on the first third of your novel and copy-editing" from a "sister company".
Oh My @E G Logan what a beauty. o_O
 
I can see the inspiration for the M.O.
This is the second ostensibly 100% straight agent I've come across – and I was really shocked by the first one – to have tried to market editorial services to their rejectees.
It's all part of what AP calls 'monetising the slush pile'.

But if I'd been fragile, depressed, deeply disappointed, whatever, I might have signed up for some of the suggested nonsense!
 
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now i really do want to read the writing myself and see just how jerky these agents must be to reject it. i can't stand people who would go out of their way to be so passive-aggressive (or honestly just rude) lol
 
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