I have a great and well respected agent in California. He's repped me well on my non-fiction works, and now he has my novel. He's had it for a year (he mainly reps NF works), but he's not told me to whom he's sent the manuscript. When I've asked, he's vague. And he's shared (verbally) some feedback from a publisher, telling me that the novel has passed reads within the publishing house (or houses, he's not clear whether there is one publisher or more than one interested).
Is this typical, for an agent to be so vague about where a manuscript has been read and rejected or gone on past the first read? Even after asking several times? Am I out of line to press him for this sort of information at this point, a year after he's taken on the project to rep?
Is this typical, for an agent to be so vague about where a manuscript has been read and rejected or gone on past the first read? Even after asking several times? Am I out of line to press him for this sort of information at this point, a year after he's taken on the project to rep?