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Jay Has Some Thoughts

Agent Jonathon Lyons has an entry here describing an author he had an interaction with this week, and can I just say WOW. WOW. Seriously. I mean, I understand being annoyed or hurt by rejection. It sucks. It sucks when you don't get the job you want, or the guy you ask out says "no thanks", or when the agent you're dying to get says "not for me." And I understand the impulse to say, "you're WRONG!" But it's really not a good idea. It's like that scene in A Few Good Men when Demi Moore objects to a ruling by the judge. The judge overrules her. This is where it should end. But instead, Demi Moore asks for reconsideration. "We strenuously object, your Honor!" she says. Oh, you strenuously object? Well, then, you must be right! Or, I'm totally right and you should sit down, Demi. Thanks. I'm assuming that an author's strenuous objection to rejection engenders a similar response in an agent. "Oh, you