Pooh

Get a reply:

“I like this and I like the setting but something tells me that I’m not going to be the right agent for the book. It has a slightly whimsical edge to it which I think works against it fitting neatly into this hungry genre at the moment.
I am sorry, but I do appreciate being allowed to see this at this point. I wish you all the best in your hunt for an agent. I suspect it won’t take long and you will make a great success of this.”

It seems like a really nice rejection letter. Either he really is being positive or he always says “no” like this. Or he wants to sleep with my friend.

I don’t know what a “hungry genre” is. And I thought “whimsical” meant childish, like Winnie the Pooh. I look it up in the dictionary.

1. spontaneously fanciful or playful (come again??)
2. given to whims; capricious
3. quaint, unusual or fantastic

Which leaves me none the wiser. I look at “whimsy.”

1. quaint, comical or unusual, often in a tasteless way

Maybe he meant my book was “tasteless.”