I read 17 query letters in 30 minutes a day. By my count, you've sent 17 query letters total, and that's over the course of five years. Too bad you're using it to torment yourself instead of entice ME.įor starters, let's both of us agree that you don't know a damn thing about how the OTHER side of the query process works. In your spare time do you like to beat your head against the wall?Īt this point I almost want to read your novel because you have a fevered imagination. Obviously, all agents aren't the same, and I'm certain that some do take the time to read the queries even if they don't take time to respond. What do you think about his whole experience and my theory that agents aren't actually reading our letters? I don't even know if I have a specific question. Now that I have typed all of this, I have lost sight of my question.
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Of course this is me assuming that on Wednesday she rejects all of her Monday queries and on Friday rejects all of Wednesdays. It just seems as if an "I don't have time to read this right now" form letter is a better response than, "Your project sounds very interesting, but it's just not for me" email. She could just feel sorry for me and be politely telling me to leave her alone, again, in that same e-mail "form" fashion. I clearly wasn't smart enough to understand the first no (I'm thinking this from her perspective here of course). Right? I mean why tell me the same thing twice. I feel like if she read the exact same twice, she would have just ignored the second. I followed the instructions posted to a T. I can't help, but wonder if my letter and sample were even read. Same thing, 3 days later I got a response from her. I literally copied and pasted the original letter in an email and sent it in to the exact same agent. I sent the exact same query for the exact same book. The more I read about agents and writer's good and bad experiences, the more I started to think. I shook it off and hoped that maybe one of the other agents I sent it to would be interested. I sent out a query to an agent and within 3 days had what I knew was a "form" no. Honestly, I don't think my writing career can get any worse at this point.
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I am now in the process of the dreary queries again (different novel) and tried something crazy, just to test out a theory. I queried a novel 5 years ago and after 15 no responses, I gave up.