I'll keep this short.
A few years ago, I wrote a manuscript I thought was quality enough to be published. So I hit the ground running and started the rough process of querying. After what seemed like a billion letters, I finally found someone who not only liked my manuscript, but who also seemed to "get" it. She made me feel like she was going to champion my writing to the n'th degree.
Fast forward a few years. My original manuscript was apparently a hard sell. She told me that the main response was that the writing was good, but it needed to be a less niche story. I went back to the drawing board with a new manuscript, which was apparently a bit more mainstream. The response was an absolute flat line. But then again, my agent barely had hardly any comments about it. We went through one round of edits, I gave it to her and then never heard a word about it. The few times I poked her, I got kind of generic answers. I've just busted my butt on a third manuscript, which she told me should would read as soon as she 'wasn't sick' anymore.
I know there's a lot that goes into the agent side of work, and I know I'm not the only client she has, but I can't help but feel like I'm on the back burner. I'm trying to decide if it might be time to find someone else... though I'm not really enthused about that idea. Maybe I'm just being a bit anxious. I know my manuscripts are at least pretty good, but with all of them just sitting there, I can't quite tell up from down anymore.
A few years ago, I wrote a manuscript I thought was quality enough to be published. So I hit the ground running and started the rough process of querying. After what seemed like a billion letters, I finally found someone who not only liked my manuscript, but who also seemed to "get" it. She made me feel like she was going to champion my writing to the n'th degree.
Fast forward a few years. My original manuscript was apparently a hard sell. She told me that the main response was that the writing was good, but it needed to be a less niche story. I went back to the drawing board with a new manuscript, which was apparently a bit more mainstream. The response was an absolute flat line. But then again, my agent barely had hardly any comments about it. We went through one round of edits, I gave it to her and then never heard a word about it. The few times I poked her, I got kind of generic answers. I've just busted my butt on a third manuscript, which she told me should would read as soon as she 'wasn't sick' anymore.
I know there's a lot that goes into the agent side of work, and I know I'm not the only client she has, but I can't help but feel like I'm on the back burner. I'm trying to decide if it might be time to find someone else... though I'm not really enthused about that idea. Maybe I'm just being a bit anxious. I know my manuscripts are at least pretty good, but with all of them just sitting there, I can't quite tell up from down anymore.
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