Someone at the Park Literary Group looked at my website last week.
There's no escaping the watchful eye of stat counters and traceable footprints.
What does it mean, though, that in response to a query there was a visit? An agency-associated person went to the site and looked at the sample chapter that's posted. Evidence exists; there was a hit on that very page.
That was last week.
A week, and still there's been no SASE returned with a form rejection letter stuffed inside.
A week, and there's no e-mail asking for the first three chapters or even the full manuscript.
Someone looked at the sample chapter and it's silence ever since. Was it an agency assistant, told to check out the site to see if it's professional enough? Was it the agent I queried, intrigued enough by the query to want to read the actual novel?
Guesses and second guesses, but it's not unlikely that the query and the SASE were put into the big pile, to be rejected en masse when the intern comes in. Meanwhile, it will sit and I will wait, making guesses and searching for meaning where there may not be any logic at all.
4 comments:
I'd be excited. I think you're right on most counts. SOMEONE was interested enough to check you out.
I'd take that as very positive!
Good Luck!
It's happened before, with InkWell Management, but the personalized rejection came within a day. So I guess the query is working but not the manuscript.
On second thoughts, I'm not sure all of the novel should be online.
It is essentially already published, so a lot of agents won't consider it.
Perhaps just three chapters as teasers, as you would submit to most agents?
Just my two cents worth. You should research it a bit, but I think you'll find this is accurate.
What's been submitted to agents isn't posted on this blog. We have the first chapter available on our website, but that's as much as an agent would need to see if the opening is hook-inducing.
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