On Manuscript Wishlist, Rena says she wants 50 pages as an attachment, and it does seem from QT and a couple posts here that if you don't send those (or even if you do), she'll ask to "take a closer look" at them anyway, but I'm nervous about attaching to a query, and the agency website says "First two chapters of the book, or an equivalent of up to fifty pages," with no info about pasting versus attachment. Anyone have recent experience that sheds some light about her preference between pasting versus attaching, 2 chapters versus 50 pages (wildly different in my novel)?
Queried Rena Rossner with first 50 pages pasted into e-mail after #kidpit req: 23.07.17
Request for same 50 pages, this time attached as Word doc 'for a closer look': 27.09.17
Oh dear!
ETA: I did e-mail her to ask, and she sent back a prompt, polite message asking me to follow her website guidelines. Oopsie. My only excuse is that I did have other requests and I must have logged her guidelines down wrong.
I got the same email today as well (I had pasted them in the body of the email). Looking back on her website and the agency website I don't see anywhere that it says to attach it as a word document. It just says to include it. Regardless, I want to think she wouldn't even bother with that email if it wasn't something that slightly piqued her interest. Small victories, Pisco!
She liked my DVPIT tweet, so I sent her my first 50 and the query three days ago. Today she emailed me and asked for the full. I'm freaking out just a little. Time to go frantically edit.