Hi All,
I am hoping that you fellow AWers can lend some advice here. I am currently querying a YA mystery. I've had some requests for fulls but not a huge amount and on those have had mostly "liked it, didn't love it" responses and the dreaded "didn't connect with characters."
One agent, though, really liked it but stated that she was at 99% but wanted to give me a chance to find an agent that would go for it 100%. She did say that if I was unsuccessful in that to get back in touch with her. When I wrote back my thanks she said that she really did mean it so I don't think she was just letting me down easily (I hope).
So I guess my question is, when do I decide I am unsuccessful in finding another agent? I've been querying for about a year total and it's been about six months since the agent responded. I have revised but not majorly since then and I just hit triple digits in querying but of course there are hundreds of more agents I could query.
Any guidance or advice on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt
I am hoping that you fellow AWers can lend some advice here. I am currently querying a YA mystery. I've had some requests for fulls but not a huge amount and on those have had mostly "liked it, didn't love it" responses and the dreaded "didn't connect with characters."
One agent, though, really liked it but stated that she was at 99% but wanted to give me a chance to find an agent that would go for it 100%. She did say that if I was unsuccessful in that to get back in touch with her. When I wrote back my thanks she said that she really did mean it so I don't think she was just letting me down easily (I hope).
So I guess my question is, when do I decide I am unsuccessful in finding another agent? I've been querying for about a year total and it's been about six months since the agent responded. I have revised but not majorly since then and I just hit triple digits in querying but of course there are hundreds of more agents I could query.
Any guidance or advice on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt