ThomasLitchford

Oh, Ms. Barer, you break my heart…

Dear Author,

Please forgive this impersonal note regarding your query, which we have considered but must decline. As we receive a tremendous number of queries, we are unable to respond to each submission individually, but we thank you for the opportunity to review your work.

We encourage you to keep writing and to try other agents.

Yours sincerely,

Barer Literary, LLC.

Look familiar? Apparently, Ms. Barer and Ms. Cheney share more than just office space; they also share rejection slip verbiage.

This will mark the end of my posts regarding agent replies as they come in. I’ll continue to post on this process, just not in such a specific manner.

One exception: I’ll post any replies that are more than just form letters, because I think those are helpful for prospective authors.

Now I’m going back to sifting through the deal posts on Publisher’s Marketplace.