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Jan. 20th, 2007 09:49 amThank you for your interest in [Literary Agency]. Our agency has changed direction. For the foreseeable future, [Agency] will consider for representation only manuscripts comprising adult fiction and nonfiction about animals, including companion animals/pets, feral animals, working and service animals, domestic and farm animals, laboratory animals, caged animals and wild animals.
It's -- well, it's not so much that the rejection stings, mind you, since the manuscript I sent them was not about animals and I've had far worse. It's more the surreality of the thing. What makes a literary agent decide that all she wants to handle are animal stories? Especially since within the animal niche they're apparently accepting for consideration anything and everything to do with animals? What kind of life-changing epiphany causes that? Conversion to PETA? Saved from a burning house by the family hamster? Saved from conversion to PETA by a burning family hamster?
These are the questions that torment me. :D
It's -- well, it's not so much that the rejection stings, mind you, since the manuscript I sent them was not about animals and I've had far worse. It's more the surreality of the thing. What makes a literary agent decide that all she wants to handle are animal stories? Especially since within the animal niche they're apparently accepting for consideration anything and everything to do with animals? What kind of life-changing epiphany causes that? Conversion to PETA? Saved from a burning house by the family hamster? Saved from conversion to PETA by a burning family hamster?
These are the questions that torment me. :D