My first freelance rejection slip:

Hi there

Thanks so much for your proposal for the 33 1/3 series. I’m afraid that yours isn’t one of the proposals we’ll be signing up, but we really do appreciate that you took the time to send it in – we enjoyed reading every one of them.

Very best wishes,

David

I submitted a proposal to write a book on D'Angelo's Voodoo for Continuum Publishing's 33 1/3 series. Last year there were 170 proposals and of those 20 books were signed. This year, in order to fill the same 20 slots, there were 449. Sweet. I guess I was a year late.