I sent off an e-query to an agent at a very well respected agency. It included the letter and the first five or so pages of the manuscript as requested on his website. He responded a few days later with:
Sorry, it’s not for me. You might want to try D.C. or A.Y. here at [our agency], however.
I mailed him back asking if this was a referral and he sent back a few moments later: "You may say I suggested you try them."
Now I have learned not to get very exicted about these things. But this 'no' is a little different than the usual 'no'. I like to think it means at the very least that he looked over my sample and thought that though it wasn't something he could get excited enough about, that the writing itself was at a level he wasn't embarrassed to recommend.
I was just wondering how I should used this tidbit which is so very much more than I usually get. Since I usually get zip, zero, nada. No reply at all. Nothing. Into the black hole. Across the event horizon. To world's end. Oblivion...
-MM
Sorry, it’s not for me. You might want to try D.C. or A.Y. here at [our agency], however.
I mailed him back asking if this was a referral and he sent back a few moments later: "You may say I suggested you try them."
Now I have learned not to get very exicted about these things. But this 'no' is a little different than the usual 'no'. I like to think it means at the very least that he looked over my sample and thought that though it wasn't something he could get excited enough about, that the writing itself was at a level he wasn't embarrassed to recommend.
I was just wondering how I should used this tidbit which is so very much more than I usually get. Since I usually get zip, zero, nada. No reply at all. Nothing. Into the black hole. Across the event horizon. To world's end. Oblivion...
-MM
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