Hi, Jennifer -- I have a question and would appreciate if you gave me your opinion on it. How long should I wait before 'email-querying' a status of YA novel submitted to an agent? The agent requested it whole (70,000 words) - we were both working on a Sunday and obviously my query clicked in when she was at the computer and able to see it herself. We're in the same time-zone.
Some agents send back a quick acknowledgement of receipt - others don't. It depends on how busy they are at any given time. This one didn't send back receipt-acknowledgement. I've no way of knowing whether she received my submission as requested. I don't want to clutter her email box with questions. Still, I'd like to know that she at least received it. Submission was 2 weeks ago.
What's a reasonable business-time frame to inquire as to the novel's status?
I've had many - and I do mean many occasions in the past when, after email inquiry as to the novel's status, the agent replied that he/she never saw it, never received it. Then, after I re-subbed, I got back email from <assistant> with either standard rejection or rejection that made no sense at all. A few times I got back a rejection on a novel that I did not write. And once I got a rejection that was re-routed through a writer in Arizona. So, considering such things do happen, how do I go about at the very least trying to find out whether my sub of Word document was received -- without hitting an <assistant-wall>...?
Thanks for your time and pointers. Edita.
