I don't think I've ever seen so many good queries and partials in the office at one time before. This is both wonderful (I can't wait to read them) and terrifying (what if someone else with a smaller reading pile gets to them first?). It's the first time I've actually wished for an electronic reading device, so that I can carry them everywhere. Park and manuscripts? Yes, please.
Several of you have asked about a typical day. I will get on that shortly. But here's today so far:
9 am: Reading work email at home.
10 am: Arrive in office's neighborhood. Tea time: Lady Grey.
10:30: Put out series of small fires in email.
10:55: Running, face-first dive into pile of queries.
10:57: Decide to count queries, as it's a very large number. How many today?
- Sixteen hard-copy queries. Requested one immediately, set aside two to think about.
- Sixty-six e-queries. Requested fourteen. With a little math (somehow I remembered proportions), that's 21.2 percent. Are you kidding? That's amazing. Plus, fifteen more were good enough that they got a personal rejection. Wowza.
I won't even tell you how many manuscripts came in--if I do, I may go into a small panic.
And from the looks of them--they're really, really good.
1 comment:
Congratulations on all the great queries. It's always nice when you realize you're overwhelmed with positive things.
It's refreshing to hear from an agent that has so many strong ideas coming through vs. a lack of anything worth requesting. For all of us searching for representation it's a hopeful sign.
I can't wait to hear more about your typical day, so far it sounds pretty great. Tea, discovering great stories, reading! ; ) I'm sure it's a lot more challenging than any of us think when it comes to weeding through it all, even the good stuff.
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