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Josh:
Awesome to hear. I wish you all the luck with the full. Can't wait to hear good news.

Kathleen Dante:

--- Quote from: RMatthewWare on July 05, 2007, 03:24:34 PM ---For published authors:
How many query letters did you send before you got an agent?
How many query letters did you send before you got a reply that even seemed interest (request for sample chapters, full manuscript, etc)?

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Um, how to say this without sounding like bragging? Zero. My crit partner passed my full manuscript to two agents without my sending a query letter. The second agent offered representation two days after she received it. The first agent passed on it 9 months after she received it. Of course, by then, I already had representation and my agent had just sold it.

Richelle Mead:
I sent...10 letters maybe?  In two phases.  They were all different agents, but 5 were before I did some major revisions to the first chapter.  I think I got...three requests for pages, one of whom eventually became my agent.  Everything else was a rejection--except one who never responded.  The ironic thing?  I've met this agent twice now, and she LOVES my book.  She's made it very clear she'd love to take me as a client now...and blinked in surprise when I mentioned the rejection.  It's unclear if she got the letter since there was no yay or nay.  Or, it may just not have spoken to her at the time...it happens, and that's how it goes.

blgarver:

--- Quote from: Kathleen Dante on August 05, 2007, 04:19:22 AM ---Um, how to say this without sounding like bragging? Zero. My crit partner passed my full manuscript to two agents without my sending a query letter. The second agent offered representation two days after she received it. The first agent passed on it 9 months after she received it. Of course, by then, I already had representation and my agent had just sold it.

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Lucky!  Wish I knew some people with connections.

Tasmin21:

--- Quote ---Lucky!  Wish I knew some people with connections.
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Hey, Richelle... Wanna hook a sistah up?  ;)

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