I say dumb questions because maybe I am just seriously overthinking this...but here goes.
1. When an agent's submission guidelines say to indicate whether you are first-time writer (or if this is your first novel), do you say you are even if you have written, and queried, other manuscripts? I am assuming what they are asking is only if you have anything published.
2. I am querying a new manuscript in the same genre as my first, which means I am querying some of the same agents again. I know agents see gazillions of queries and the likelihood of them remembering someone who queried them years ago, even if they requested a full, is low...but even so, I am wondering if agents do happen to remember a querying writer, are they less likely to read subsequent queries out of hand because they didn't like previous ones?
1. When an agent's submission guidelines say to indicate whether you are first-time writer (or if this is your first novel), do you say you are even if you have written, and queried, other manuscripts? I am assuming what they are asking is only if you have anything published.
2. I am querying a new manuscript in the same genre as my first, which means I am querying some of the same agents again. I know agents see gazillions of queries and the likelihood of them remembering someone who queried them years ago, even if they requested a full, is low...but even so, I am wondering if agents do happen to remember a querying writer, are they less likely to read subsequent queries out of hand because they didn't like previous ones?