...since I sent you my query, and you're just now getting it? You could probably spare me the form rejection. I wrote you off 5 months ago and have moved on. Or were you just trying to brighten my day?
Thanks,
JoNightshade
Thanks,
JoNightshade
Dear Agent: If it's been 8 months...
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I've had a few. One was just shy of a year later.
I figure it happens this way: The pile of queries is ceiling-high. The ones on top teeter a little as people pass by. Then they slip, one-by-one, down the pile but behind a bookcase or desk or into a cobwebby corner. One day a year, the cubicle or office is cleaned thoroughly. Or at least passed over with a vacuum. Lo and behold--there are those errant queries that are now yellowing with neglect and age. Who'd want to touch that?
Well, that's how I see it.
I figure it happens this way: The pile of queries is ceiling-high. The ones on top teeter a little as people pass by. Then they slip, one-by-one, down the pile but behind a bookcase or desk or into a cobwebby corner. One day a year, the cubicle or office is cleaned thoroughly. Or at least passed over with a vacuum. Lo and behold--there are those errant queries that are now yellowing with neglect and age. Who'd want to touch that?
Well, that's how I see it.
Sorry Jo, know the feeling. I recently received a rejection on a query I sent 2 years ago. The agent had long since left, but someone had apparently gone through the leftover slush. I'd already written it off, so it didn't sting too much, but still...
I figure it happens this way: The pile of queries is ceiling-high. The ones on top teeter a little as people pass by. Then they slip, one-by-one, down the pile but behind a bookcase or desk or into a cobwebby corner. One day a year, the cubicle or office is cleaned thoroughly. Or at least passed over with a vacuum. Lo and behold--there are those errant queries that are now yellowing with neglect and age. Who'd want to touch that?
Well, that's how I see it.
I'm actually okay with belated snail mail queries. I know stuff happens, things get lost or moved or overlooked. But this was an e-query! Half of my day job involves responding to massive amounts of email, similar to queries, and if I fell even a week behind I'd be costing my company tons of money. I find this degree of delay to be totally ridiculous. They even apologized for it in their form response. Excuse me? If you're getting such a huge volume of queries you have an 8 month backlog, CLOSE SUBMISSIONS. Sheesh.
Oops. Sorry, Jo. My imagination was flying along there, picturing all those envelopes. It became a micro-fiction.
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8 months is bad... I agree, if they are that far behind they need to do something about it - perhaps temporarily close submissions, as you say.
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