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Heh. I've done the same thing myself! My best advice is to contact the agent and tell him/her that you'll be happy to send the proposal "after the holidays". That generally gives you until the first or second week of January. You can probably have it done by then and, frankly, the agent probably won't have a chance to look at it until then anyway!


Congrats on the request, though! Good luck!

Wow, glad to hear you got some bites! My husband once sent out a query to agents for a script he hadn't even written, and one actually requested the whole thing. So he wrote it in about a week (a treatment already existed). Needless to say, that was a "tee hee, oops!" moment. The agent received it about two weeks later, none the wiser. But in your case a proposal may be more time sensitive than a script, so C's "after the holidays" advice sounds FAB.

Be sure and keep us updated RW. If you don't want to post part of your proposal in Share Your Work, I'd be happy to take a look at it if you e-mail it to me. I'm stuck working this week with absolutely no news happening.


I visited your web site (it's yours right?) and I think you may have sold yourself short in your query. Not that it matters at this point. You've got access to reams and reams of fantastic material and this can make a nice book. You could have bragged a bit more.

Adam

Hi. I don't think there's any problem with using portions of the query in the proposal. But I don't think there's a need in your case.