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A New Request for a Full
Nov. 20th, 2017 05:05 pmI resumed querying after breaking up with my publisher last month. I tend to consider the practical side of that as being the querying of small publishers, but I also resumed the querying of literary agents.
The reason I think of the queries to publishers as being the practical querying is that I've sent out over 1000 query letters to lit agents, of whom exactly six have asked to see the full manuscript, none of whom then went on to offer me a contract; whereas I have sent 32 queries so far to small publishers who permit directly querying by authors, of whom three expressed interest, two of whom subsequently offered me a contract.
Be that as it may, I received a response earlier this week from one of the lit agents I'd queried, asking for a copy of the full manuscript for her to read.
As always, it guarantees nothing; the other five times this happened, the final outcome was a rejection.
And, as always, the additional awareness of someone else's eyeballs on my book soon prompted me to see things that needed changing! "Hmm, that paragraph has a couple sentences about having outgrown my previous naive ignorance, but I no longer have the section from early childhood where I discuss not knowing such things... that should be removed. Oh, and in this incident here, I go into a lot of details about what I explained to my date, that makes it read as if I tended to dwell on that a lot, like that conversation was a representative sample of many such conversations, let's lighten that up a bit..."
Anyway, stay tuned. I'll cross the requisite finger and maybe something will come of it this time, you never know.
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The reason I think of the queries to publishers as being the practical querying is that I've sent out over 1000 query letters to lit agents, of whom exactly six have asked to see the full manuscript, none of whom then went on to offer me a contract; whereas I have sent 32 queries so far to small publishers who permit directly querying by authors, of whom three expressed interest, two of whom subsequently offered me a contract.
Be that as it may, I received a response earlier this week from one of the lit agents I'd queried, asking for a copy of the full manuscript for her to read.
As always, it guarantees nothing; the other five times this happened, the final outcome was a rejection.
And, as always, the additional awareness of someone else's eyeballs on my book soon prompted me to see things that needed changing! "Hmm, that paragraph has a couple sentences about having outgrown my previous naive ignorance, but I no longer have the section from early childhood where I discuss not knowing such things... that should be removed. Oh, and in this incident here, I go into a lot of details about what I explained to my date, that makes it read as if I tended to dwell on that a lot, like that conversation was a representative sample of many such conversations, let's lighten that up a bit..."
Anyway, stay tuned. I'll cross the requisite finger and maybe something will come of it this time, you never know.
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I am now echoed on DreamWidth, like many other LJ folks. My DW acct is here. Please friend/link me on DW if you are a DreamWidth user.
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