I feel like such an idiot.
I've been seriously hunkered down in my editing cave. Add to that my laptop dying a week ago and me shopping for a new one and restoring my files and reloading software and such, and I admit I haven't kept up on the latest news. I live in sunny southern California, where our weather has been consistently lovely, and I heard some vague news about a storm approaching the East Coast but didn't know the details. I worked for three hours straight yesterday morning giving my opening and query one last polish before sending it out to an agency. An agency in New York. Just before the storm hit.
Immediately after pressing "send", I ventured to my on-line news sites to catch up on the world. Wow. The storm was just starting to hit, and the rest of the day the storm went from bad to worse. I'm certain that agent will think I'm at least clueless and at worst completely inconsiderate. She is in a life and death situation, and I'm asking her to consider my book.
So...any advice for those of us ready to continue querying? How long should we wait before contacting agents in the aftermath of this storm?
I've been seriously hunkered down in my editing cave. Add to that my laptop dying a week ago and me shopping for a new one and restoring my files and reloading software and such, and I admit I haven't kept up on the latest news. I live in sunny southern California, where our weather has been consistently lovely, and I heard some vague news about a storm approaching the East Coast but didn't know the details. I worked for three hours straight yesterday morning giving my opening and query one last polish before sending it out to an agency. An agency in New York. Just before the storm hit.
Immediately after pressing "send", I ventured to my on-line news sites to catch up on the world. Wow. The storm was just starting to hit, and the rest of the day the storm went from bad to worse. I'm certain that agent will think I'm at least clueless and at worst completely inconsiderate. She is in a life and death situation, and I'm asking her to consider my book.
So...any advice for those of us ready to continue querying? How long should we wait before contacting agents in the aftermath of this storm?