Trident Media Group vs. Dystel & Goderich: Round 6!
Here’s another update on my paranormal romance agent hunt saga:
Had a chance to actually meet Ms. Whalen in person for a few minutes after she gave a presentation at a local venue (the details are unimportant, really). She was very nice and approachable, and confirmed my findings that she’d be a great agent to work with. The main goal was to give her a “real card” thank you note for considering the manuscript (we’ll overlook that the 1 year anniversary of the initial query sending has already passed).
Goal accomplished!
On the other hand, when I reminded her about the manuscript (story, etc.), she *clearly* had no earthly idea what I was talking about, even though, bless her heart, she was trying her darndest to remember. This, after emailing her two revisions, the most recent being last month.
*sigh*
It almost feels as though I’m starting all over again, except the foot in the door part has already been accomplished. It also confirmed my suspicions that because of a change of assistants, my manuscript probably slipped through the cracks (she shared that her office receives around 100 queries a day).
So I’m very pleased, and much relieved, but still waiting to hear what Jim at Dystel & Goderich thinks of the same revision of the same manuscript.
It was a little frustrating to hear her talk about the market being saturated with vamps and weres, although she believed paranormal romance is here to stay…*and I had submitted a paranormal with no weres or vamps*.
*double sigh*.
Time will tell if it was worth the mileage, time, and thirty bucks.
Hope this helps someone.