Just got a reply back from an agent I queried at the beginning of May. I was pretty sure that by now the only replies I’d get from queries I sent back then would be rejections.
I was sitting at the dinner table when my iPhone boinked to let me know I had mail. We hadn’t started yet, so I looked and found the scariest thing I’ve ever seen in print.
“I enjoyed the first three chapters of your manuscript. I would like to look at the next few chapters! Please attach them as a Word (.doc) file to your response. I look forward to hearing from you.”
I sent back the next four chapters, which brings her to the middle of the book (not counting the epilogue).
I’m trying not to get my hopes up. Really trying. Failing utterly, but trying nonetheless.
It was nearly two months for the first three chapters, so I can probably expect at least that long for the next four… right? Getting my hopes up now has got to be completely premature.
[size=50]*Not posted in “I’m a Writer!” because I’m also trying really hard not to get ahead of myself.[/size]
Kendric, I’ll say this for you: you know how to write a provocative subject line! Maybe that also bodes well for your manuscript. But if a good-news message is the scariest thing you ever see in print, then you will be leading a charmed life. Good luck.
(PS: your agent may greatly prefer that you keep quiet about any deal in progress, rather than announcing it in a forum.)
This is a little stuff shirted isn’t it? All he said was “OH CRAP! THEY GOT BACK TO ME”. If he said “Agent Q at address blah decided that the wanted to read the next 3 chapters of my unpublished work One life spent annoying Druid” or disclosed some other info, then yeah. Bad move. Which I guess kind of agrees with you in advising K to be very careful what is posted about the deal.
Ah Jaysen, here we are back to our usual personas. Me shirt, you headless.
What I think you really miss are vic, molly, & sarah to play with.
Long, long ago (2007) we had an amazing character from Montreal called Eiron who wrote the funniest and also most curmudgeonly posts, but then he (I say “he” cautiously) said he was going into production on a play, and he vanished. Maybe he’s still lurking here; I do hope he’s OK and I certainly miss his voice and rollicking diatribes.
I do not understand vic’s mostly silence. I sent IMs to him and you and never got a response.
Mr Kendrick.
Heartiest congratulations and the very best of luck with the rest of the project.
Messrs Jaysen and Droo,
Having to share the same Writers room with him, even if not the same keyboard now, I cant for the life of me, imagine why on earth you would want more vic-k participation on the forums. I would`ve thought, gentlemen, that counting your blessing was the order of the day.
Do take care,
Fluff
All I’m going to say to this is well done, and the agent will probably get back to you faster, but nothing is guaranteed.
Also, whenever I see advice from people about publishers and agents and how they work, I feel I have to say that every single agency and publisher is different. There are trends, but you never know.
Just enjoy the feeling and don’t listen to anybody wanting to dampen your spirits.
Faint whiff of the oxymoronic there Mr. K. I`d frame that.