Huge rejection cake for you,
ap123 (CNR counts, right– although they might surprise you with a late offer…)
Sounds intriguing with that 'literary hilarious' agent, crossing fingers for you!!
Here's a big one for you, too,
Tamlyn, for your story rejections.
Good luck with your novel queries, though, and go you at Nano!
And here's a cake for your 'sort-of-agent' rejection,
Raggy – but can I also say 'sort-of-congratulations'? Now you know where you stand,
finally have a clear confirmation of what you've known for a while. No longer 'bound' to the hope of having an agent. Like Putputt says, you're worth much more than an agent who don't really like what you write, don't go fully to bat for you – even if she'd tried to sell this book, she might very well have been 'not too enthusiastic' about the next one, and then you'd be back in the doldrums…
So. Good luck with your synopsis, and welcome back to the query trenches
. You've done it before, you've got a publishing history, I'm sure your chances are very good. Rooting for you!
Thanks,
pingle.
The book I'm working on now is in the same universe as the one I'm querying. I'm trying to sell book one as a 'stand alone with series potential' – there is a larger story arc behind everything that I would like to develop further. In a sense, the plot isn't what it seems, either, the protagonist is fooled in several major ways, and the antagonists are someone else than what he is led to believe. So I would love to reveal more of this in book two, while keeping that one, too, a stand alone - a completed story arc, not a cliffhanger thing. But. I do have some doubts – maybe it would be better to write something completely different now (have several story ideas floating around in the dark corners of my mind clamouring to be heard…) in case this first book doesn't sell. So for the time being I'm doing all this research, reading, taking notes, getting ideas, but not being fully committed to writing. Sigh.
I can take a look at your manuscript too if you want – you write adult fantasy, right? Can't promise a full, in depth crit, but I could give you some general feedback probably – how long is it?
(What's softplaying?)
Raggy – Art and Design, how exciting! You do illustrations yourself, too, don't you? (and now I feel like I really have to go to Lillestrøm and hunt for that orange cake! (I love cake…) And you've got a chapter up in SYW - the YA section, is it? I'll have a look if you like.
Thanks for the cookie,
Liz_V! NaHoCleMo
– I'd definitely do (almost) anything to procrastinate during that one! But then again, I probably wouldn't sign up in the first place, so…
I have been able to switch between projects in the past – this is the agenthunting day, this is revision day, this is research time. But these days, I don't know – have a hard time getting into anything. Too much mental energy tied up in that 'waiting-for-those-Festival-of-Writing-agents to answer me' exercise I guess…
Four months and 26 queries, ten percent request rate,
Fuchsia Groan – that's not a bad statistic!
Good to hear it's not impossible, shameful or even very difficult to get a new agent – it does scare me a bit to hear how common it is to have to go through several agents before you're able to sell your book…
All this talk about housecleaning - nope, don't want to go there. I'm at a cafe writing and reading atm, so going to pretend housework doesn't exist… Our two cats have never done any real mischief in the house. But one of them in particular is very fond of writing cryptic messages to me when I'm working. He walks across the keyboard, sits on it, or pushes at my typing hands. Never been able to figure out the code, though, so don't really know what it is he's trying to tell me…