After the agents returned from their summer holidays, I started again with the tons o' fun that is the query process.
As soon as Amy Williams of McCormick Williams got the snail-mail query, she asked for pages, and it was all electron submitting so what could be less expensive? She made up her mind within three weeks. Form rejection, tough market, not in love, that sort of thing.
Nathan Bransford, manning Curtis Brown's San Francisco branch, picked up on the e-mail in a matter of hours, and the sample chapters were off on the electron highway. Five days later, the rejection arrived. Couldn't relate to the characters.
Another fast request came from Michelle Tessler, owner and operator of her own literary agency, who was captivated by the synopsis that I posted to her web form. A bit of an expense with her, however, as she likes the writing sample in hard copy form. Sure and it's only money, so the parcel was sent, the parcel arrived, and she read it at once. The rejection was sent via e-mail, to make things go faster.
And here it is, October already. Will the queries sent out at the end of September have the same effect a month later? Or is this manuscript doomed to a shadowy existence under the bed with the dust bunnies?
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