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Good luck Kmarshall and Shari C! I met Kate McKean this Jan at WDC, sensed immediately that she was genuine and that I could have a good rapport with her and was ecstatic and overeager to send her my work. To my great regret, I accidentally sent her the first 9 pages of part 2 that make no sense out of context and are a weak representation of the rest of my novel instead of the first 75 pages that she asked for (Amateur move I know. Lord only knows how that happened.) I received a polite R the next week. Lesson to share: triple check the docs before sending and make sure your book is the best it can be. Good luck with your submissions!!
When did you realize you'd sent the wrong file?
If it was before you got the R, you totally could have resent the correct one with a quick "Sorry, I was so nervous I had a brain blip and attached the wrong file," and it would have been fine.
Just an FYI for the future (you may already know it, but maybe someone reading this thread doesn't); agents are humans, they do know writers are nervous and that we occasionally mess up, and it's not a big deal.
If I ever left my agent (which I have no plans to do), Morhaim is one of the names at the very top of my list of agents I'd talk to.