1) Do agents habitually google the book and or author when they receive submissions?
2) It must be asked all the time, but I couldn't see it in a sticky:when querying in the UK (i.e. letter, synopsis, sample chapters) can you query more agent than one at this stage?
- I ask because I get conflicting information through google. On one level, I think it shows more respect and desire to have a particular agent to query only once. On the other, it seems rather foolhardy at this stage to wait 3 months or so for something that, at the end of the day, requires very little time to read. This is compounded by the fact that it seems to me that few agents will actually respond - so you may end up waiting 3 months when the stuff had been read and rejected days after submission.
- As I think about it further, I don't see any agents specifying not to send it elsewhere on their website.
2) It must be asked all the time, but I couldn't see it in a sticky:when querying in the UK (i.e. letter, synopsis, sample chapters) can you query more agent than one at this stage?
- I ask because I get conflicting information through google. On one level, I think it shows more respect and desire to have a particular agent to query only once. On the other, it seems rather foolhardy at this stage to wait 3 months or so for something that, at the end of the day, requires very little time to read. This is compounded by the fact that it seems to me that few agents will actually respond - so you may end up waiting 3 months when the stuff had been read and rejected days after submission.
- As I think about it further, I don't see any agents specifying not to send it elsewhere on their website.