Agent Jessica, of Bookends LLC , has a post here about getting rejected by your own agent. An author apparently sent a manuscript to her* agent, who didn't like it. That's gotta suck. I don't look forward to it, myself. But I have to say that I totally expect it to happen. By that I don't mean that I have low self-esteem and that I will inevitably be rejected. (Believe me, I have issues, but low self-esteem? Not one of them.) It's just that, like when I was querying agents and expected to be rejected, I fully expect that someday I will send something to my agent and he'll be like "nah, I don't think so. What else you got?" I don't know where I got that expectation--whether I picked it up by osmosis from the Internet or it was just something I assumed--but when it happened to a friend of mine, not too long ago, I wasn't at all surprised. Disappointed for him, because, like I said--SUCKS--but not, like, shocked . I think this kind o
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