Hi there, I've had a couple requested fulls out for a few months, and so far my (limited) experience with nudging has been getting either a negative response or none at all, so I wanted to ask: Has a nudge ever gotten anyone a positive response?
Positive response to nudge?
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Yup! For me 
. After two months I nudged my would eventually become my agent and she said she was just about to get to it. Got a revision request. And after that got an agent!
But I definitely would not nudge after one month. That's not enough time.
. After two months I nudged my would eventually become my agent and she said she was just about to get to it. Got a revision request. And after that got an agent! But I definitely would not nudge after one month. That's not enough time.
Thanks, that's encouraging! And congratulations even if it was a while ago. I'm between three and six months with both agents, but nervous about nudging my way to a rejection.
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I don't think a nudge would make someone reject unless you do it in an unprofessional manner. A nudge is a nudge. Either it'll make them realise, "Huh, still haven't read that one, I guess I'm not that interested in it" or "Shoot! I need to still read that one!" or "I'm reading it now, will let you know." I can't imagine what professional agent would be all "I love this book so much but now that you nudged, forget that, it's a rejection!"
Often times agents on their web site will give you some idea of how long it will usually take to get back to you. Some even tell you to nudge after X amount of time. In your case, 3 and 6 months are way past times for the two agents to respond to you. Most likely they are simply not interested & have not bothered to say so.
If it is past time, I doubt that it hurts to shoot them a polite follow-up. The worst that they can say is no which, if the silence means disinterest, is exactly where you were anyways.
And congrats on getting requests for a full manuscript!
And congrats on getting requests for a full manuscript!
Thanks, everybody! I guess I'll nudge in a bit and see what happens. I wish agents requesting a full and then never responding weren't a thing, though.
So in the end nudging got me rejections from both agents... looks like in my case they'd already decided but not planned to send a rejection until I nudged. Still better to get a response though :/