Advice for a needy newbie

SophieM2401

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Hello

So, I sent my query and sample chapters out a couple of weeks ago (17 days, but who's counting?) to the first 6 agents on my list of about 20.

Amazingly, I had my first request for the full MS last week, and duly sent it off. Two days later, I had my second response: a form rejection.

Obviously the first is amazingly encouraging and the second par for the course. But I'd sort-of decided that my strategy was going to be sending the pitch out to a new agent on the list once I had a rejection: one in, one out, so to speak.

Should I wait and see what the agent who's reading the full says, or lob another MS out to the next person on the list?

Thank you in advance.
Sophie
 

kaitie

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Go ahead and send another. A response is a response, and now you can send out a new one to replace that one.

I also set time limits for each query since not everyone responds. Two months in general, but sometimes less if an agent always responded in a faster time frame. Basically I'd check once a week and see how many time frames were up and send out more accordingly.

I also tended to get impatient and just send out five or six at once periodically just because I could. :tongue
 

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Sophie, you have stumbled upon a tradition that is dearly cherished among many AWers: the revenge query. It is considered satisfying, good business, and -- satisfying!!
 

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Definitely keep querying! Until you get a 'yes', you're not obligated to wait, and could be wasting valuable querying time!

'revenge query'... I'll remember that.

Anyway, you're strategy sounds great!