And now, a dispatch from the query wars
Apr. 23rd, 2008 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperI have had very little brain for editing old words or writing new ones lately. To make up for this, I've been querying like mad. The problem with sending out a whole swath of queries is, of course, that the chances are very high that you'll get back a whole swath of rejection letters. Often several in the same week, if you're doing e-queries.
Which has led me to conclude that there must surely be a Writer's Law of some sort that says that persons who are not interested in your work will answer much, much more quickly than the ones who have even the remotest glimmer of interest. So far, the fastest turnaround times I've had on queries for Lament of the Dove have been for folks who have politely informed me within twenty-four hours that they are not the right people to represent my work. This week, I've gotten two!
Nevertheless, hope springs eternal, or perhaps in my case, grabs the nearest can of diet Mountain Dew as it struggles to keep itself awake. I've just discovered for myself the wonders of AgentQuery.com, which appears to be a tool even more awesome for writers than the Zokotou word meter. All you already-published and already-agented folks on my Friends list, this is the part where you grin tolerantly and think to yourselves, "A baby novelist! Isn't she cute?" ;) The rest of you, aspiring hopefuls like myself, go. Utilize AgentQuery.com. Search the hell out of it and start picking and choosing the agents who might be right for you.
Meanwhile, I've just tonight composed another query for Faerie Blood to punt it back out the door too. This brings me back up to a total of eight queries out, one for Faerie Blood and seven for Lament. I've just about run out of the agents I'm most interested in who are taking email queries, so I'm going to have to start firing up the paper mail real soon now.
In the meantime, okay, Inbox, I'm waiting. Bring it. I've got more diet Dew.
Which has led me to conclude that there must surely be a Writer's Law of some sort that says that persons who are not interested in your work will answer much, much more quickly than the ones who have even the remotest glimmer of interest. So far, the fastest turnaround times I've had on queries for Lament of the Dove have been for folks who have politely informed me within twenty-four hours that they are not the right people to represent my work. This week, I've gotten two!
Nevertheless, hope springs eternal, or perhaps in my case, grabs the nearest can of diet Mountain Dew as it struggles to keep itself awake. I've just discovered for myself the wonders of AgentQuery.com, which appears to be a tool even more awesome for writers than the Zokotou word meter. All you already-published and already-agented folks on my Friends list, this is the part where you grin tolerantly and think to yourselves, "A baby novelist! Isn't she cute?" ;) The rest of you, aspiring hopefuls like myself, go. Utilize AgentQuery.com. Search the hell out of it and start picking and choosing the agents who might be right for you.
Meanwhile, I've just tonight composed another query for Faerie Blood to punt it back out the door too. This brings me back up to a total of eight queries out, one for Faerie Blood and seven for Lament. I've just about run out of the agents I'm most interested in who are taking email queries, so I'm going to have to start firing up the paper mail real soon now.
In the meantime, okay, Inbox, I'm waiting. Bring it. I've got more diet Dew.