As always, read each agent's submission guidelines & give them what works best for them.
I recently checked the top 10 on my list of 61 prospective agents who handle the kind of book I've querying (sci-fi/fantasy). Of them 8 said email queries only were accepted, printed ignored (presumably trashed). One said either were accepted. The other said ONLY printed queries were read.
Possibly SF/F agents are more prone to use electronic communications. But I suspect not.
One agent (in an interview to a question about her daily work schedule) said the main reason she insists on equeries is because her work load is 10 or more hours a day, and maybe half that on weekends. Agents often have killer schedules, and this one reads queries mostly out of her office, riding to and from work and at home, on her smartphone.
(When asked if the noise and busy-ness of subway cars is a distraction she said - as a joke I suppose, but she IS a long-time NY City native - "What noise?")
I recently checked the top 10 on my list of 61 prospective agents who handle the kind of book I've querying (sci-fi/fantasy). Of them 8 said email queries only were accepted, printed ignored (presumably trashed). One said either were accepted. The other said ONLY printed queries were read.
Possibly SF/F agents are more prone to use electronic communications. But I suspect not.
One agent (in an interview to a question about her daily work schedule) said the main reason she insists on equeries is because her work load is 10 or more hours a day, and maybe half that on weekends. Agents often have killer schedules, and this one reads queries mostly out of her office, riding to and from work and at home, on her smartphone.
(When asked if the noise and busy-ness of subway cars is a distraction she said - as a joke I suppose, but she IS a long-time NY City native - "What noise?")
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