Tulip: Welcome to the trenches of the masochists. Blame is our fame and pain is our middle name.
tri
tri
Well it went well!! I got and agent I got an agent !! *happy dance* I didn't throw up or anything ! Haha
It's been the ominous silence of an empty inbox all week so far.
I seem to have gone from querying some agents who get back quickly one way or the other to ones who don't. So I'm left not knowing when a no news simply means no, versus no news means they haven't gotten to their growing pile of queries yet.
Sometimes I can get an idea from the records on query tracker. There's one agent, for instance, who always seems to get back to people within a week when she wants pages, but may or may not send rejections out for the ones she doesn't want. But there's another who doesn't seem to send rejections very often, yet her pages requests from initial subs vary from happening within a day to two months. So not hearing back within x amount of time doesn't necessarily mean no.
Then there's another who is usually very quick on both requests and rejections, and never used to leave people hanging, but now has a huge pile of queries (according to query tracker) they haven't responded to either way (to request pages or send a rejection) for like two months now.
Wondering what's going through agents' minds is the road to madness, but I can't stop
Well it went well!! I got and agent I got an agent !! *happy dance* I didn't throw up or anything ! Haha
How's everyone else doing?
It doesn't end there either.
I'm on my fifth week of waiting on a two-week exclusive with a big publisher (no longer an exclusive, my agent sent out a bunch of pitches a little over a week ago).
Wondering what's going through agents' minds is the road to madness, but I can't stop
Well it went well!! I got and agent I got an agent !! *happy dance* I didn't throw up or anything ! Haha
I had a lengthy response typed out about the likelihood of a first-agented book selling, but I think I'll stick with these links below (many from agent blogs), and the simple statement that selling or not selling a manuscript has everything to do with the market and timing and luck and what editors are currently looking for and Mars' alignment with Jupiter and who knows what else, and very little to do with how confident an author is about their own work.
THIS and THIS and THIS and THIS and THIS