jonathanmoeller ([info]jonathanmoeller) wrote,
@ 2007-11-09 12:52:00
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our opinion is not necessarily our opinion
Got a thought-provoking rejection letter today, for a sword-and-sorcery novel I wrote back in 04. It was a standard form letter, with a section for comment in the middle:

Thank you for showing us your novel...

Reader comment: Sometimes I wish Dungeons and Dragons had
never been invented.

...please do not take this rejection as being necessarily a
reflection on your work...

Ha. No reflection there! I always enjoy it when people slip up and accidentally let you know what they're really thinking.

-JM

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(Anonymous)
2007-11-10 05:48 pm UTC (link)
It's the equivalent of people starting their offensive comment with, "No offense".
-Mark M.

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[info]jonathanmoeller
2007-11-10 06:56 pm UTC (link)
Exactly right. Or when people start a sentence with "God bless him, but..."

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(Anonymous)
2007-11-11 01:16 am UTC (link)
Still, it beats a rejection letter one poster on Tess Gerritsen's blog received: "Don't write to me ever again. In fact, don't write ANYTHING ever again."

:)

ec, posting from a hotel connection somewhere in rural Virginia

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[info]jonathanmoeller
2007-11-11 08:26 pm UTC (link)
I've only got a few letters that boil down to "go F*ck your f*cking self". More common seem to be the ones that make you wonder if the editor was smoking crack or something, the ones where they talk about their cats or their love lives or something.

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