Too many MS-es!

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Hello, wonderful writing sages! It's been a while since I last posted (lurking is an addiction ...), so if this is in the wrong place, sorry!

But I have a question.

Here's the basic situatlon -- I have three completed MS-es sitting all neat and edited in their respective shoeboxes. (yay!) They're all YA -- one's SF/F, one's plain old Fantasy, and one's urban Fantasy, so there's a common thread in what I like to write. :p

Now, my question is, is it against the grain to send all three stories to the same agent at the same time? Should I focus on getting one story out and forget about the other two? (That seems cruel ... picking favorites and all that ...) Or should I send them all to different places, then rotate as I hear back, or ... I don't know. {@_@}

Oh great and wonderful AW writers, please lend me your wise advice! I have too much writing and I'm not sure what to do with it!!




.... On a completely separate note, Happy Valentine's Day, all!!

cheers, from eLfy!!
 

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As far as I know, I would query one agent with one work at a time - don't send 3 different ones to the same agent. I think they'd get peeved ;)
 

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Yeah, that's kinda what I was thinking .... I just needed to hear confirmation from someone else, I think!

Thanks from one elf to another! :3
 

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You send one out. If an agent likes it, then they will want to know what else you have in the works. That's the time to tell them about the other 2 being all finished and shiny.
 

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Aw, now I have to pick favorites, don't I?

:p

Thanks for the advice! I feel I'm making an educated choice now ...


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I agree with Cyia - you query with one book only, but an agent is pretty much bound to want to know you have other irons in the fire. When you get that reply saying "Send me more, and let me know if you have any other projects planned", that's when you say "Funny you should ask..." :)

Rather than picking favourites, why don't you try writing queries for all three, then pick the one that sounds best on paper? Maybe put them (the queries) up in SYW and get some feedback too!
 

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Ah, yes, SYW, the gladiator arena for query letters ...


Anne, just for you and rosehips, I'll have all three of my queries stage a giant war and I'll put the winner up once the carnage has cleared. :)

Thanks again for the input! You Wonderful Sages always help put me back in the writerly mood.
 
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