DOES A NO RESPONSE ON MY FULL MEAN IT'S BEING REJECTED?

Aldrey said:

Thank you, Thedrellum. I am a Query Tracker premium member. However, stats are not provided regarding how much time passes bewteen a person getting a full request and then an offer. Sometimes members will mention it, but most times they don't. I find tons of people listing the date of the request for the full and then there's nothing else after months and sometimes years have passed.

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Firstly, right there with you - waiting is so tough! OK, now I'm going to tell you about another Query Tracker tool that you can use to obsess over (you're welcome!). If you go to the agent's timeline, then you can choose only show queries with submissions (bottom right of options). Then you can see entries of requested submissions and the response, and how long it took (when you click on each individual one). Under reports, there is also one for submission replies and submission response times.

Eventually, yes it does. It's hard to define "eventually", however. I once had a major NY agent "lose" my manuscript on an assistant's desk for 18 months. Then asked for a resubmission, which was sent. Then never responded again.

At the other end of the spectrum, it can take less than zero time. I had another major NY agent, to whom I had never submitted anything, seek me out at a conference for the single purpose of telling me that she didn't know how she could sell my novel (which she apparently had seen a portion of as part of a contest submission to the conference).

I've stopped submitting stuff anywhere.

caw

Sorry to hear about your rejection, Aldrey. I don't have representation (yet, knock on wood) but I have fulls out with three agents, one of whom estimates three months as her minimum response time. Another agent who had asked for a full also projected three months, but wound up taking eight months with it before I got an R. It's always tempting to try to read the entrails, but as of now I'm just trying to let the responses come when they come.