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I haven't heard anything from the agent I queried yet, which is probably a good sign, actually. From what I've read on her blog, her assistant does an elimination round of sorts before passing the queries on. She posted some statistics to give poor saps like me an idea: three weeks' worth of queries was a little more than 2,600 e-mails. Of those, the assistant sent on 56, and the agent chose 15 of those to request sample pages from. And that's only sample pages, so she'll choose very few of those to request full manuscripts from, and may not even offer to represent any at all.

Gulp. So yeah, hopefully the fact that I haven't heard anything is because I've survived the whittling down thus far.

After a week of feeling like I might explode if I saw "No new messages" (or worse yet, got an e-mail that wasn't it) one more time, I finally wasn't glued to the Send/Receive button all day. It helped that it's the weekend, but still. In general it just turned out to be the worst time ever to send off the query, since I had a week off and completed the work I had to do pretty early into it. There was a lot of time in the apartment alone that I devoted to driving myself insane!

I imagine it'll be better once I get that response. It's just because it's the first time that it's so nervewracking. It'll still be nervewracking later on, but at least I'll get used to it!

I'm so unfocused lately, though. Blahhhh. I need to start writing something else - maybe I can still sneak in a short piece for [livejournal.com profile] imaginarybeasts!

By the way, I'll be taking Grandmaster Draw offline on March 1st, so if you still want to read the rough draft, you have a little time. ♥

Date: 2010-02-21 02:25 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ruecian.livejournal.com
I'll definitely reinforce the "no news is good news" part here. Because you haven't heard something just yet, means that they're talking about it.

Fingers crossed for you, for sure.

Date: 2010-02-21 03:46 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] noelleno.livejournal.com
*watches inbox from afar
*sniper rifle
*camo gear


*lurking.

Date: 2010-02-21 05:07 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] quatredeathlady.livejournal.com
I have been waiting to hear any news from you on this, and I'll third the "no news is good news" sentiment! Just keep us updated, though. I'm seriously on the edge of my seat waiting to see what happens for you--I'm not entirely sure why except that as an aspiring writer myself, you're the first friend who has been sharing their query experience. I'm definitely cheering for you! ♥

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