Throughout this series’ history, we’ve seen everything from beautiful rejection letters on gorgeous paper stock to tiny, torn slips of paper bearing bad tidings.

But I’m pretty sure today is a first.

Not a rejection letter. Not a rejection card. Not a rejection slip. Not even a rejection Post-It.

Herein, a rejection…sentence:

 

That’s a close-up on the bottom of my cover letter. It was sent back to me in my SASE with “too long – 1000 words max” written on it. And nothing else.

Now that is efficiency!