A nice rejection

Dear Elaine,

It was a treat meeting a fellow Bardian at the NHWP Writer's Day. Thanks for following up and sending along your memoir.

While I appreciated your story and admired how you poured your heart on the page, I just don't think I could be successful on your behalf. The memoir market is very crowded and I don't think I'd be able to cut through the noise with Gangsta Bears. But I hope I'm wrong and that another agent feels differently.

I wish you the best of luck with your writing.

Sincerely,

L.

A rejection, but in a world of largely impersonal rejections, I've gotten three really nice ones, and two that said they hoped someone else would feel differently and take me on. Kind of the agent version of, "it's not you, it's me". Granted, being turned down still sucks, but it really does take the sting out to get the occasional letter that's not addressed "Dear Writer".