Last September, I submitted pages from my first novel to two of the three agents from the Writers Digest Pitch Slam who asked for them (I wasn’t impressed by the third, so I didn’t send it).
I occasionally wondered if the second agent was ever going to get back to me, but mostly I assumed they weren’t and wrote it off.
However, maybe WD just sent them a reminder (“hey, if you want to come this year, make sure you responded to all your requests from last year”), because I just got a form rejection. “Didn’t connect with your work sufficiently to offer representation”. But again, it was a polite and encouraged the rejectee to keep searching for the right representation.
I know it’s just a form letter, but its civility heartens me :)
Fiction