Recent experience has suggested to me that, more often than not, when an agent wants to read a partial or full ms. in response to a snail-mail query, I'll hear well before the two- or three-week period that's supposedly typical. Chances are, too, that I'll hear via e-mail. Conversely, if I have to wait two or three weeks, the answer will almost always be no, and it will almost always come in the SASE I enclosed with the query, not e-mail.
Can anybody else confirm this pattern? If it's common, it suggests that agents usually read a pile of queries, cull the ones they like for immediate answer, and put aside the rest. Not surprising, is it?
Can anybody else confirm this pattern? If it's common, it suggests that agents usually read a pile of queries, cull the ones they like for immediate answer, and put aside the rest. Not surprising, is it?
