Querying

Yeah. I have one of those summer colds again. Has it for a couple od days, now. The weather is to blame…too much rain, humidity and heat. Hope it passes quickly. I am sitting in the chair and watching movies and NOT doing any querying.

2 more agents checked and queried. Also, 1 rejection from one of the Agents I queried this morning! I just got lucky (!) with the swift reply or else he’s not got a lot on at the moment!

There will be fewer blog posts until something happens. There is simply a lot of waiting until Agents reply to your query. I don’t propose to do the ‘got up. Sleepy. Get a coffee. Shower. Read emails. Make toast. Etc. etc. etc. etc.’ because I am not that kind of guy and anyway it would

I have decided. I need to query more agents in each ‘batch’ because otherwise, I will be over a year querying them all! Time for a re-visit to Query Manager.

There is a sense of anticipation, waiting for a literary Agent’s response but at the same time I feel an anti-climax. My days were spent writing that book for a year then suddenly…there is nothing to write. In fact, I need something to do, if I can’t query all the agents. I might be waiting

So…it’s not just a question of emailing these agents and saying ‘will you represent me?’  First of all, you need to check on their websites, or their web page if they are part of an agency, and understand what they are requesting. Bio? Book blurb…or perhaps the full synopsis? 1 chapter or 3 or 3000