'Thank you so much for sharing 'Book Title'. There’s no denying you have a creative and funny premise here, and I really enjoyed the quirky voice and the humor you bring to the page. You’ve built an offbeat, memorable opening that clearly has personality.

That said, for this kind of project, which lives or dies on its prose and execution, the writing just isn’t quite at the level it needs to be to carry the concept all the way through. With something this high-concept and character-driven, the line-level craft really has to shine and keep readers fully immersed, and for me, it fell a bit short of that bar.

Still, I appreciate the submission, and I don’t take for granted the effort that went into this. Best of luck as you continue to develop the project, and I hope you find the right champion for it.

All the best,
Diego'

While not the response I had hoped for, I feel much better having closure (I had two publishing houses ghost me on fulls for this book). I believe in my project 100%, so I will take his critique to heart and go back over my story and focus on prose and line craft.

Fast quick rejection on 80k upmarket
One of the nicest most specific rejections saying he’d request if he had the bandwidth

My suggestion is: if you are just going to be negative about an agent then why submit? Is it simply because you got rejected? Any author would do their research before submitting and he seems to have glowing reviews from those he has offered to and, not surprising, negative comments from those he has rejected.

This sounds unprofessional and will reflect on you and any others as these are public comments to be read by any agent or publisher as well as other authors. Please refrain.

Their thread on Absolute Write as well as made me pretty suspicious. Seems prior to gaining a lot of agents, they were mainly doing foreign and auxiliary rights... if anything. And his comment to @nolnod well... as long as he's a part of SBR, those actions do reflect back. Also, people can lie. How do we know the rest of the agency is not using InkBloom or whatever that AI program is?

Lastly -- can anyone find any info on where his "15 years of experience" come from? What agencies has he interned and/or worked at previously? (His wife doesn't count lol. Author and agent are two VERY different roles)