Time it takes your agent to read subsequent manuscripts?

It really depends with my agent. I've sent him 3 completed MSs after the initial MS went into subs.

MS #1 took him around 6 weeks to read, I believe.
MS #2 took him hmm...almost 10 weeks? But he told me he was going into surgery and would have to take some time to recover, so I wasn't sitting around biting my nails.
MS #3 took him 2 weeks to read, but I was supremely excited about it and I think my excitement got him all excited to read it.

Typically about two weeks. Unless he's sick or working on a contract or at a convention or something (all of which have happened before and then it's been more like 4-6 weeks). But (and I've said this before) I usually give him a heads up that I'll be sending the MS a couple weeks ahead of time so I'm not dropping 500 pages on him out of the blue.

About to find out with New Agent Lady, but since she's talking about going out on sub some time in September with this new ms., then I assume it'll be under four weeks. Former Agent Lady could take 8+ weeks just to respond to emails.

Couple of weeks, but she knew it was coming so had made time.

UltraViolette said:

Though my agent's assistant was aware weeks beforehand that I was nearly ready to send the new ms, I've since realized I should have better prepared my agent for its arrival because he seemed surprised to receive it. Maybe it would have spared me from some of the waiting.

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Different agents do things a little differently. Mine is the only agent and his client list is fairly small. He has an assistant, but it seems he (the agent) handles his correspondence himself. It doesn't mean that it's any better than how your agent does things, but there is some learning what the wait times are like once you start working with someone.

Regardless of how quickly I hear back, I usually spend that time working on something else. Maybe not a new novel, although I have a few shelf-novels I work on when I get time because they are still a little on the ambitious side for my skills, but a short story or novella. Or just looking through notes I might have for other projects I want to do at some point. It keeps me busy and helps the nerves quite a bit, for me. (Some folks do better with just taking a short break before picking something back up again.)

My agent takes a pretty long time to read (3'ish months usually). But she always responds to emails within 24 hours.

2-3 weeks for my agent. I don't usually warn him, so that's pretty reasonable, I think. Especially since he has a fair amount of clients. o.o