From John A. Ware (Agent for John Krakauer, and also for Eric Brende, author of Better Off, a book about a year living in a Mennonite community with no “modern conveniences.”)
Scrawled in blue ink on top of my query letter:
“Sorry, no memoirs, categorically. Good luck with it.”
Well, my book is not exactly a memoir. In fact, I had chosen to query Mr. Ware because I felt that my book was very similar in genre to Eric Brende’s book, which was represented by Mr. Ware. Oh well, at least I was treated to a hand-written, thick-inked denial instead of the standard type-written form rejection. Still, agents, it’s not nice to lie. John Ware, you clearly don’t categorically deny memoirs.
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