*slithers to the floor in excitement/dismay*
I'd been hoping to avoid having to write a synopsis... but now it looks like I have to.
I feel like I really need to write a love letter to QLH. I've only sent out seven queries so far but I've been getting a really decent response rate.
Yay! But boo, synopsis. Although writing mine did help me think about what scenes to cut. If I had to stop and think, why the hell did I put this in here? What's it doing for my story?, then it got cut.
Glad you're getting a lot of requests. I wrote a query that everyone in QLH loved, which then got an astounding request rate of ... 5%. Think I'll be skipping QLH in future.
As much as I love QLH and spend my time there, I don't know if it's helped me. My shiny new QLH-approved query did snag me a full request from an amazing agent, but out of 20 or so, that's been it. My last query was, frankly, kind of a mess, but it got me about a 10% request rate.
But I also am (was? have I stopped? not yet) querying a weird novel that has strange genre things happening.
QLH works, I think, so a specific sort of query. The query style doesn't work for every project (which is heresy to say, in QLH, but sort of true).
ETA: I'm probably going to jinx myself by posting about this here, but remember a few weeks ago when I was dreading a nudge? Agent has had my full since March. I'd given up on it, but I thought, what the hell, and sent one last nudge. Agent has been on leave, remembered me enough to send me a detailed email about my manuscript, and asked if I had revised it since. I sent the agent my current revision (produced after that unsuccessful double-R&R). After that whole two full rejections in one day experience, I'm not holding out hope. But I am. Because I love my manuscript and I want someone to love it enough to represent it, too. So, I am not holding out hope for this agent, but
someone, somewhere, at some point.
The waiting is brutal, ain't it?