I hear so much about writers and rejections and was fearing the worst but what I received as a rejection made me feel quite proud about my efforts so far.
The rejector wrote:
"Thank you so much for your submission - I found it very moving and eloquent.
I'm afraid it is not quite right for ******** but I trust that you will find the right publisher in the near future.
All good wishes,
Hi Jeremy, that doesn't read like a form rejection to me (I've had a few of those), it seems more personal than that. I think you should take a lot of encouragement from it. Good luck with your submissions.
Clare
gosh, it's a right good thing that I don't have a soul then, Adrian.
Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil—but there is no way around them - Isaac Asimov