Most Bizarre Rejection Letter Ever

Truth is certainly stranger than fiction. The following is an ACTUAL REJECTION E-MAIL I received a couple of months ago. It's too rich to keep to myself.

And I REALLY want to hear your responses on this. Was this person having a moment? Or is there some cryptic meaning here that I'm just missing?

Or, is this the actual form letter this agency uses? (Like, if you've received this exact rejection, I need to know!)

Names and links have, of course, been removed:


Know what, Authoress,

I've been an agent for 2 years now, finally got something through, it looks so far like it's the seller I thought it would be, and that's answered a lot of questions I had when I was querying around with a book of my own. The answer is: things with the agencies and publishers are just as you suspect in the first place. It's the same from working at McDonald's to the White House: almost nobody really knows what they're doing. They just talk like they do. And if you really know what you're doing, be careful, because you could scare people.

I promise not to do that at this Conference on (***) thing I've been invited to, a couple weeks from now.

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Me:

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I bet they put me close to the top of the list because everybody there has got a book to sell. If so, well, shoot, I was hoping I'd meet people to hawk my clients' work to -- besides in Malaysia, which is where my one guy is apparently selling like hotcakes.

This is a way of being very nice about not taking a look at the novel you've described below. Even if you were Mark Twain, right now, chances are just low, and I've got 14 other Mark Twains already...

(I await your responses.)