The world’s best/worst rejection letter
Posted on August 27th, 2012
One of our friends recently queried a publishing house and received this truly jaw-droppingly awful response.
Der [Friend],
I like your poems but I am afraid that we could not publish them successfully—we at no well known enough to market a poetry book. however, we are very interested in non-fiction: information about animals, how things work,** History, inventions, and biography.
With best wishes
[Redacted]**Our friend’s addition: “information about how things work.” Oh, you mean, like how proof-reading works?
Talk about dodging a bullet. Yikes!
hysterical!
That reads very much like some of my colleagues’ emails that they hastily write on their iPhones while driving. Bleh!
yikes!! My mind got twisted trying to read that!
There’s a reason they at no very well-known.
It certainly made me feel better about every email I’ve sent with a typo in it (esp. to authors — god, how embarrassing).
CM, you had me laughing out loud.