This: ">" along the left hand margin of my original query. Like this:
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(I hope you can see those little boogers. Blogger keeps doing something weird with my formatting! Ack! Well, if you can't, those little boogers are the right arrow keys)
No, I haven't lost my mind. These little key strokes make me smile everytime I get a rejection email with them in it.
WHY????
Well, take a guess. Don't worry. I'll wait.
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Because these little guys mean one thing, your query has been FORWARDED!
That's right! If the agent has interns going through the slush pile, these little marks mean that the query made it PAST the intern (which means the query/pages have to be decent, right?) and were sent to the agent.
I do cartwheel for that small victory--everytime I see it. Reaching small mountains makes me smile.
What about you? Anything that makes you smile while querying? I know, that's a toughie.
Oh, and if you haven't already checked out DL's 600 follower contest, Whodunit. Do that here.
~JD
20 comments:
I'll have to check that out. I never knew what that meant. Thanks Justine!
That's good stuff to know...if I ever do make it to the query stage. :)
Thank you for mentioning my contest! The games afoot!! :)
ugh! i found dl's clue here, and a whole lot of others and there are still two suspects for me to eliminate!!! grrr!!!
oh yeah.. queries... that's good to know about the arrow thingies! :) you are such a optimistic gal! and you KNOW happiness is contagious!!! :)
Little victories! Keep embracing them and the big victory will fallow for sure!
Right. I mean follow!
That's right! Keep on the sunny side!
THAT'S what those arrows mean??
Where is it, exactly, you keep learning all these random things? You should write a book titled Things You Never Knew You Never Knew.
ooh, i didn't know that! That's genius!
I did not know that! Thanks!
Way to take pleasure in the little things!
That's pretty cool. Thanks for the info. Have a great day. :)
JD is always here for those bits of useful information. :-) I LOVE Tracy's idea of writing a book! Perfect!
And now all of you have some to look forward to in your emails. Hopefully you'll find some of those arrows, too!
~JD
I had no idea!
It's always good to celebrate those little victories!
I guess I'll have to re-check my emails.
Yay!!!! If I ever get to the querying stage, I'll be sure to check this little babies out!!!
Have a lovely day JD! Take care
x
p.s GRAMMAR POLICE should arrest me!!! I meant "THESE" as in plural? These little babies.. oh dear!! Off I go quietly to hand myself over! :-) x
I never really thought out that. You're so smart! :) Good luck with your querying!
Now I'm going to have to read through my rejections to see if any > are there.
Well, there you go. I didn't know that. But that is very cool!
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