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I actually had an agent say, "I'll probably regret passing on this
manuscript, but I'm going to."
The good news? She now regrets it!
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From: TECHWR-L
To: Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Rejection (aka "ding") letters
Date: Friday, August 19, 1994 8:20AM
Hi again!
Someone I knew (a frustrated technical writer who crafted lovely short
fiction)
got brave and sent a particularly beautiful piece to *The New Yorker*
magazine.
According to him (he wouldn't show me), he got back a "ding" letter that
said
only this:
Sorry.
Compact, eloquent, yes. Kind to a writer's ego? No. But, hey-- when you're
*The
New Yorker*...
Dumb question: Is there such a thing as an old yorker?
