Agent reading my blog??

Back in November I sent out a full manuscript to an agent, and haven't heard anything yet. I didn't have high hopes at all since it is a book about a bike trip through the Indian continent that we took back in 1990-91, but I sent it in on the off chance that someone would be interested.

Anyway, I was just looking through the stats on our website and noticed that someone from her firm spent a fair amount of time browsing around our site!! They checked out the "About Us", "Adventures", and "Press" pages at first. A couple hours later they came back and headed over to my blog and hung out there for a while.

What do you think - just a fluke? Would that show interest on their part? Do agents do that on a regular basis?

edited to add: I recently completed the rough draft of a book about our recent bike trip with our kids - and posted about that. So - the agent now knows that I've written another book too!! And she knows that we are leaving on our big trip in June...

edited again because I realized this didn't make sense... I sent out a query in July and they came back in November and asked for a full. So - there was interest at that point. But now, two months later, they are checking out our website - and I'm hoping that's good news!

Thanks guys!! While I will admit my blog isn't the most exciting thing on earth right now, it will be once we get on the road!! (Not that it's bad or anything, I just don't have a very interesting life to write about right now.) I did send them the url for our website - but that was way back in July!! We don't have a very big log on our website, so it is possible they've been there before, but I didn't notice. I'm hoping the fact that they took the time to check out our website means they are interested - at least a little bit!

Thanks Judg!! That's what I'm hoping...

That makes sense actually. I just didn't really think about it - so when I saw they were there, it kind of threw me for a loop!

If I had to take it offline when I submitted I would have to keep it down all the time! I actually sent in that query back in July, and the manuscript in November!

I happened to be looking at the return visitors to see who was coming back repeatedly - just in case I could figure out who any of those people were. As I looked through the list, I noticed the address was the name of the literary agency.

Oh yeah - and I don't think I would even think aboutposting anything negative about an editor!! I might rave about how wonderful she's doing, but I wouldn't do anything to jeopardize anything.

No - it will give me who your internet provider is. For my home, it just says "Qwest". But for them, it said Inkwell Literary Agents.

and it also tells me what city/town you are in.

Really, I can't figure out who anybody is unless they have an internet provider that is specific to the company. For example - my sister works at NOAA, so for her it would show someone in Silver Springs, Maryland for NOAA. And I happen to know who that person would be. For small towns it is pretty easy too - if I know someone in Peek-A-Boo, Idaho, that's the person reading it. But for New York City?? That's tough - unless it says "Inkwellliteraryagency" in NYC. Even for us reading our own blog - the only way I know it's us is because of hte number of entries - it just tells me Qwest in Boise and I'm sure there are other readers from Boise with Qwest!