There Isn't Always Feedback

Thanks for the query said Kevan Lyon. She'd just opened up her agency with Jill Marsal and I figured she'd be looking for some material.

Thanks for the query, and could you send the first two chapters?

She'd seen pretty much all of the first two chapters already, since her submission requirements asked for the first ten pages and a synopsis. Easy enough to attach the chapters as a Word document, give her ten more pages to read. After all, she must have liked the opening enough to want more, and she must have liked the way the story played out based on the synopsis.

Three weeks later, it's a rejection.

Thanks for the e-mail she says this time, but the project isn't right for her list.

You'd think she could have determined that earlier. What made the next ten pages not right for her list if the first ten did?

I'll never know. Ms. Lyon read the first two chapters, didn't like what she saw, and took a pass with a form rejection that's "one size fits all". No feedback, no mention of what it was that made her change her mind.

That's how it goes sometimes.

Who else haven't I queried yet?