accidentally just queried an agent from my work email-- whoops

famousfannie · Feb 14, 2019

Hoping this is not too catastrophic an error... I own a business, so in the "from" field it will say my business name (a clothing store) instead of my name. I'm worried they might see that and be like "WTF" and hit delete. I did include my personal email at the bottom of the query, along with my phone number, so there's that. I considered re-sending with an explanation, but decided that would probably make things worse. Oh, well. My last agent ended up signing me even though in the original query to her I misspelled her name, so hopefully the letter's content is what really counts. Creative people are supposed to be a little spacey.

By the way, do agents ever comment anything here in the "ask the agent" thread? Just curious.

MaeZe · Feb 14, 2019

Could be worse. You could have hit 'reply all' when you've just cussed someone out. :tongue

My son did it. No one cared, apparently.

Introversion · Feb 15, 2019

If you’re worried it’ll land in a spam folder, send it again from your personal email, with a note that you sent by accident from another email.

JJ Litke · Feb 16, 2019

famousfannie said:
By the way, do agents ever comment anything here in the "ask the agent" thread? Just curious.

Look through the thread titles and you’ll see a number of sticky threads full of Ask [agent name] threads. And there was one just recently with Lane Heymont, that’s down the page a bit. Honestly, the same questions pop up pretty often in those threads, so if you read through them, you’ll probably get a lot of your basic questions answered. There’s always a few unique questions, too, so it’s worth looking through those threads.

David Odle · Feb 26, 2019

Introversion said:
If you’re worried it’ll land in a spam folder, send it again from your personal email, with a note that you sent by accident from another email.

This. No need to over-think it and cause yourself anxiety.

bapeery · Mar 13, 2019

I feel like that's much better than emailing from bballer3925@hotmail or something scandalous! lol The personal email at the bottom definitely helps. Try not to sweat it too much!

accidentally just queried an agent from my work email-- whoops

famousfannie

MaeZe

Introversion

Pie aren't squared, pie are round!

JJ Litke

People are not wearing enough hats

David Odle

Chasing the dream

bapeery