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Hey all,
I signed with an agent that I love last year and who I feel a strong connection with in regards to my work and my goals. We went on sub with my novel earlier this year and she kept me apprised of all the various updates (rejections) as we received them and are on our third round of subs right now. She's thus far always been very supportive and enthusiastic over my work and pre-pandemic would respond to my questions within the week, if not same or next day. But since pandemic, her communication has gotten spotty... it's starting to take her a couple weeks to respond to a question. I also have a lot of unknowns about what is going on right now with the pandemic and submissions and summer, etc. I know she's dealing with a lot of unknowns as well, and I know she prefers to answer me with firm information once rather than a bunch of maybes and i don't knows as the weeks pass.
I guess my question is — what has been everyone else's experiences with agent/editor communication during this pandemic? Are you seeing much slower responses in general or is summer always like this, even with existing agent/author relationships? How often do you communicate with your agent, especially right now during the pandemic and especially if you're on sub? Like, do other people email their agent just to catch up once or twice every few weeks, or are you on a strictly "only update me when you have news" basis, or what? Just curious.
Trying to manage my expectations here. I know we're all in unknown territory but feeling a little anxious at the change in communication style lately.
Thanks!
I signed with an agent that I love last year and who I feel a strong connection with in regards to my work and my goals. We went on sub with my novel earlier this year and she kept me apprised of all the various updates (rejections) as we received them and are on our third round of subs right now. She's thus far always been very supportive and enthusiastic over my work and pre-pandemic would respond to my questions within the week, if not same or next day. But since pandemic, her communication has gotten spotty... it's starting to take her a couple weeks to respond to a question. I also have a lot of unknowns about what is going on right now with the pandemic and submissions and summer, etc. I know she's dealing with a lot of unknowns as well, and I know she prefers to answer me with firm information once rather than a bunch of maybes and i don't knows as the weeks pass.
I guess my question is — what has been everyone else's experiences with agent/editor communication during this pandemic? Are you seeing much slower responses in general or is summer always like this, even with existing agent/author relationships? How often do you communicate with your agent, especially right now during the pandemic and especially if you're on sub? Like, do other people email their agent just to catch up once or twice every few weeks, or are you on a strictly "only update me when you have news" basis, or what? Just curious.
Trying to manage my expectations here. I know we're all in unknown territory but feeling a little anxious at the change in communication style lately.
Thanks!