/lit/ - Literature

I recently received a rejection for a short story collection that I submitted to an agency more than six months ago. The agency had a response time of eight weeks, and when that came and went I naturally assumed they'd passed on me.

It feels strange getting a formal rejection so long after I'd resigned myself to a de facto rejection. I'm not really disappointed, since I got over the assumed rejection ages ago. It actually makes me curious about what took so long, and makes me wonder if it means they were seriously considering me for a long while.