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I finished this novel about a month ago, so it's time to start sending it to agents to see if any of them want to represent it. I have a list of around 50 agents who sound like good fits for my book, and I've sorted about half of them into the first 3 rounds of queries. I sent 8 out today, and now I wait for responses.
Or no response; there's an annoying trend right now where "no response means no."
One less-annoying trend is the Query Manager submission form, which each agent can personalize with the submission elements they want. It's pretty cool, and you get a link to your query status, so you can play rejectomancy like with short stories. One thing I wish QM had was the ability for authors to have a saved profile-ish where you paste in your query, etc, and customize it for the agent in question, because copy-pasting the same things 5 times is annoying.
For the agents who want emailed submissions, I made gmail templates for query + 5 pgs and query + 10 pages, both with the synopsis at the end, which I can cut for the ones who don't want it. There are a handful who want 50 pages (yikes), but they want it as an attachment.
The hard part is going to be not being crushed under the inevitable pile of "doesn't meet our needs right now." But who knows, maybe a strongly anti-capitalist queer romance will hit the Zeitgeist.
Or no response; there's an annoying trend right now where "no response means no."
One less-annoying trend is the Query Manager submission form, which each agent can personalize with the submission elements they want. It's pretty cool, and you get a link to your query status, so you can play rejectomancy like with short stories. One thing I wish QM had was the ability for authors to have a saved profile-ish where you paste in your query, etc, and customize it for the agent in question, because copy-pasting the same things 5 times is annoying.
For the agents who want emailed submissions, I made gmail templates for query + 5 pgs and query + 10 pages, both with the synopsis at the end, which I can cut for the ones who don't want it. There are a handful who want 50 pages (yikes), but they want it as an attachment.
The hard part is going to be not being crushed under the inevitable pile of "doesn't meet our needs right now." But who knows, maybe a strongly anti-capitalist queer romance will hit the Zeitgeist.
