I'm not new to the querying process, but I have a question that I've never really heard answered anywhere. Generally, I know it's best to work on querying/selling one project at a time, but I wondered if it was okay to do otherwise.
Backstory...I've been querying one of my novels since August. I think I've done 75 - 80 of them. From them, I've had seven requests for fulls or partials. All were form rejected -- "I like the premise but I'm not passionate enough to represent it." So I don't know if there's something wrong with my book or if it just means that the wrong people have read it. Anyhow, I just got the last of the fulls back the other day.
In this time frame, I've written and edited another novel that I like better than all the rest. I'm ready to start querying for it, but I'm not sure I'm ready to give up on the other one, either. So, would it be okay for me to query both of them to different agents? Book A with Agent X and Book B with Agent Y, and so on? Best case scenario (and very lucky), I get offers of representation for both. How would that work? Are agents and/or publishers okay with that sort of arrangement?
If it makes a difference, the older one is YA and the new one is adult.
Backstory...I've been querying one of my novels since August. I think I've done 75 - 80 of them. From them, I've had seven requests for fulls or partials. All were form rejected -- "I like the premise but I'm not passionate enough to represent it." So I don't know if there's something wrong with my book or if it just means that the wrong people have read it. Anyhow, I just got the last of the fulls back the other day.
In this time frame, I've written and edited another novel that I like better than all the rest. I'm ready to start querying for it, but I'm not sure I'm ready to give up on the other one, either. So, would it be okay for me to query both of them to different agents? Book A with Agent X and Book B with Agent Y, and so on? Best case scenario (and very lucky), I get offers of representation for both. How would that work? Are agents and/or publishers okay with that sort of arrangement?
If it makes a difference, the older one is YA and the new one is adult.