Querying In the Time of Coronavirus

ObeysGravity · Apr 27, 2020

MODS, please feel free to redirect if I have missed an existing thread.

I've been wondering if this is a particularly bad time to be sending queries to literary agents.

If already planned releases are being held back due to the current conditions, I can imagine quite a backlog building.

(I don't know this to be the case.)

Are agents still reading?

Any thoughts?

Bufty · Apr 27, 2020

Why not?

It's as good a time as any to submit.

Agents are always on the lookout for good publishable material.

Good luck.

Re the backlog situation - keep in mind that there may be cases where content means the intended publication may no longer be suitable in the current situation.

noranne · Apr 27, 2020

Not a mod, but I remember a recent thread about this here: https://absolutewrite.com/forums/sh...or-little-point)-to-query-during-the-epidemic

Ari Meermans · Apr 27, 2020

Yeah, I probably could have sent the thread to Ask the Agent just as well. AW Admin will move it if she sees fit.

ObeysGravity · Apr 28, 2020

Thanks, Noranne.

The thread you provided exactly speaks to my question.

Querying In the Time of Coronavirus

ObeysGravity

Bufty

Where have the last ten years gone?

noranne

the possibilities are endless

Ari Meermans

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