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The Long Wait Thread (For Literary Agents, Publishers, etc)

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Willowhugger:
Well I've sent off my author's query, synopsis, and first five pages to the Donald Maas Literary Agency.  Now it's just a matter of time for them to get back to in order to say whether they want to represent me or not.  It probably arrived about Thursday of Last Week and now it's just a waiting game until they get back to me with my self-addressed stamped envelope.

I'm confident that this is my best work yet.  I mentioned that I'd been published before and I have a second book in manuscript form waiting for them to look at if they're interested in it.  There's so little that can be told from just that initial letter though and they're a prestigious firm (in addition to Jim Butcher, they also have my other favorite author in Elaine Cunningham).

I haven't sent any other queries out just yet but I'll probably deluge out for others if I don't get this agency.  It's hard waiting for an answer. 

So who else is playing the waiting game?

Josh:
It always seems slow from the writing perspective, doesn't it? Yet it seems that editors and agents and the like are always going at breakneck speeds with the amounts of queries and submissions they get. I wonder if there is a way we could exchange a little of the time difference and make everyone a little bit happier.

Right now I'm in the "getting a novel shopped around" mode, and my biggest challenge is to not make an annoyance of myself by checking up on the status of submissions, rejections and the like. I'll only make myself paranoid, anxious, and one of those writers that people flee from whenever they see me coming. I've heard the horror stories, I just don't want to be one.

Donna:

--- Quote from: Willowhugger on January 03, 2007, 07:07:18 PM ---Well I've sent off my author's query, synopsis, and first five pages to the Donald Maas Literary Agency.   

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Do you know that Jim's agent, Jennifer Jackson, has a LiveJournal?  http://arcaedia.livejournal.com/
In her last entry from yesterday she mentions having pages to look at.  :)

Willowhugger:
Well that blog gives me hope.

Now I've started Graduate School and am merrily typing away but still it nags on me whether or not I should have sent out to more groups or done an e-mail query instead of a snail mail.  Intellectually, I know she gets hundreds of queries and it's very unlikely mine is going to be anything special to them but it's special to me ya' know?

So I just keep thinking on it.

Yeah, waiting blows ;-)

resurrectedwarrior:

--- Quote from: Willowhugger on January 09, 2007, 10:19:55 PM ---Well that blog gives me hope.

Now I've started Graduate School and am merrily typing away but still it nags on me whether or not I should have sent out to more groups or done an e-mail query instead of a snail mail.  Intellectually, I know she gets hundreds of queries and it's very unlikely mine is going to be anything special to them but it's special to me ya' know?

So I just keep thinking on it.

Yeah, waiting blows ;-)

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So . . . did you query Jennifer Jackson or Donald Maass?

Just curious. : o )

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