Up until just recently, I was convinced that the internet was the best invention ever (thanks Al Gore!), but today, I'm beginning to rethink that statement. After returning from the RWA National Conference, I had 3 requests for partials that I needed to send in (hooray for me!). One of the agents even asked for me to email them to her, which I thought was a great idea.
"Wow," I thought, "someone who understands the interwebs! How handy for me!"
And since i was already submitting three sets of partials, I decided to query two other agents who I was very interested in. Both accepted e-queries as well, which made my day. So the night before last, I arranged all my stuff, organized the queries and sent them off into cyberspace. It was around 11pm, I think, since i do my best work at night.
"How simple that was!" I said, dreading my visit to the post office the next day to send off the two remaining partial requests.
Until the next morning. When i woke up and discovered that I had ALREADY received a rejection from one of my slush pile queries. Less than 12 hours had passed and already I was crushed. Usually, you have time to come to terms with submitting a query and the possibility of a rejection. But i was still riding high on the euphoria of actually submitting again, after a very long hiatus.
Sigh.
Still, no worries. I'm sure that the others will do better. After all, now it's been more than 24 hours and I still haven't gotten any more rejections. Hoorah for me!
Also, I'm told by Sonja that I'm supposed to post the winner of our fabulous "What Personality Type Are You? Contest" I'm pleased to announce that Becky is our wonderful winner of Bite Me If You Can, by Lindsay Sands. Please email Sonja with your address and she'll send it right off to you! Congratulations.
Back to my pain... Anyone else have any excruciating rejection stories you want to share? Post them and I'll give away... uh... some book. Maybe one of Sonja's! :)
Friday, July 20, 2007
The Marvel of the Internet
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I still say they should wait a minimum of 24 hours before sending a rejection.
I'm not a writer so I don't have any rejection stories about books, but I do have one about being rejected at work. It was the only job that would even let me come in for an interview at the time.
I sent in an application for a nice secretarial job and they said for me to come in for a job interview. So I got all dressed up nice and pretty, put on makeup and everything and best clothes and went to my interview. When I got their I saw the CEO flirting with this woman who looked like a whore, who was sitting behind the secretary's desk. She had really revealing and slutty clothes and her face was covered in piles of makeup. You couldn't even see her real face. It was disgusting. Anyways, I walked in and the CEO saw me and said, oh I'm sorry, I forgot to call and tell you that we already found somebody (meaning the whore behind the desk), and that she had come in a few hours before now without a scheduled interview and had gotten the slot. He said we like assertive people, people who are willing to come here and try to get the spot without waiting for the company to talk to them. He told me that I wasn't the kind of person he was looking for as a secretary and had me escorted out of the building and back to my while the street was completely full of people. I forgot to mention the office was completely full of people also. I have never been so embarrassed and emotionally torn apart as that time. That was completely uncalled for. He turned me down before he saw, talked with me, and found out what I was like and he publicly embarrassed me and beat me down in public twice. I don't really care so much about it now because I realized I can do better than work for a man like him, but it still hurts.
That was an awful, awful story Becky! Want me to beat him up for you? Because I totally will.
LOL I thought about doing it myself a time or two.
that is horrible. I don't write but I still wouldn't want something like that. Good luck with the others.
I can sympathize Becky. I remember one day being rejected on my birthday. I was doing a trial run on a job and been working for them for a week. The manager asked me if I would do an extra shift until closing since he was shorthanded which meant I would not leave until 11:00 PM that night. I didn't really want to because it was my birthday and I wanted to have time to celebrate but I desperately needed this job so I agreed. After closing, when I was about to leave, the manager stopped me and told me not to bother coming back tomorrow because he did not feel it was going to work out. I was crushed. He basically used me because he had nobody else that day knowing all along he was going to get rid of me. That was my worst birthday ever.
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