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Don’t Let Those Encouraging Rejections Fool You

How one nearly got me

Joe Ponepinto
Oct 25, 2025
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Recently I watched a video in which writers discussed revising their novel query letters based on agent rejections. One writer who had received some rejections sounded encouraged, because the four examples given all referenced that the agents were unable to “connect” to the manuscript. All the writer had to do was revise the ms with an eye toward connec…

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