Two Requests, Same Agency

You don't want to query multiple agents at the same agency. What you're essentially doing is setting up co-workers to fight over a project, which just means the project will be rejected to keep the peace. I'd suggest telling the second agent you made a mistake, and you already queried someone at their agency. Apologize and thank them for their interest.

childeroland said:

Should I send in the second partial while notifying the agent about the first, or should I just notify him (second requester) about the first?

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Don't send the second partial at all. You don't knowingly want to be the potential cause of strife at an agency [both agents wind up liking your partial, both request fulls and like the work, both plan to present at editorial board meeting, etc., etc. -- problems for you, to say nothing of a lack of trust and/or professionalism in your methods).

Just email the second agent and as Danthia said, admit your mistake.

Someone recently had the same problem here, and e-mailed agent #2 to explain and agent #2 agreed to look at it should agent #1 pass. That's the ideal scenario for you - see if you can get agent #2 to agree to that. Because statistically speaking, they wouldn't fight over any one particular MS, they would both reject it.

I wonder what the odds are of having 2 agents at the same agency fight over one MS? Anyone figured this out? It must have something to do with a warping of the space-time continuum. . .

Not to make light of it, but, man...I wish I had your problems! LOL

RainbowDragon said:

Someone recently had the same problem here, and e-mailed agent #2 to explain and agent #2 agreed to look at it should agent #1 pass. That's the ideal scenario for you - see if you can get agent #2 to agree to that. Because statistically speaking, they wouldn't fight over any one particular MS, they would both reject it.

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That would be me, yes! I did exactly that. Of course I try to word it as humble and polite as possible.