How to Annoy the Gatekeeper, Part II

NYC Literary Agents:

Sorry for the mass email but this trip was last minute.

I will be in New York tomorrow and am looking for a literary agent for the attached proposal. If you have interest and time to meet please email me.


Uggh. Right. We're just sitting here, waiting for a proposal to come in so we can shove everything else--including the clients we already have onboard--aside, on the off chance that you (who we didn't know existed until thirty seconds ago) want to meet with us. Tomorrow.

Note that I have 181 queries waiting for me, and I didn't get this in time.

Somewhat amusingly, the first lines are: Every few decades a book is published that forever changes the lives of its readers. [Name of work] is such a book. 

5 comments:

Dawn Hullender said...

Dear Mr. or Mrs. Glory Hound,

Get in line! LOL.

Sincerely,

The NEXT J.K. Rowling.

:) said...

Wow - does he have a blog (I'm totally assuming it's a "he")? I'm curious if this approach, unorthodox and irritating on a mass scale though it may be, might prove to work for him.

Maybe the rest of us are doing it all wrong!

:)

P.S.: This is a simultaneous annoyance.

cc: Everyone and. . .(wait for it!)
bcc: their mothers

Chris M. said...

So? When can we expect this book on our shelves?!?!

Donna Gambale said...

Every few minutes, an email is written that forever raises the bar of self-important delusion. This is such an email.

jmartinlibrary said...

WOW.

Unfortunately, I suspect you have many more stories like this one.

Erg. You deserve a cookie.