Wow! Thirteen requests for the manuscript. Fantastic! I have been querying agents and publishers for 15 months and have had no requests for my manuscript. All I get is the standard, "while there's much to admire in y our submission, I don't think I am the right agent..." You know... the thing.
I agree with your comments about continuing to polish over the time spent waiting. Writers are always polishing their work, right up to the when they receive the galleys.
Here's my 'one-sentence pitch.'
"The Fake Memoir of a Mid-List Writer follows a lost, then found, young Don Quixote, tilting at the windmills of literary recognition and love outside his class."
Hi Paul! I've been fairly successful in pitching my MS—happy to help out if you are serious about landing an agent and want to message me. Have a few tips that might help :)
Oh yeah. For sure. You know my story. Between 2011 and say 2021 I sent literally hundreds of queries to agents for multiple books. I got very close with one book specifically but, that being 2017 and me being a WSM and Trump being in power, it was...no dice. Point is: Keep going. It may take six months, a year. Clearly you're a solid writer.
Wow! Thirteen requests for the manuscript. Fantastic! I have been querying agents and publishers for 15 months and have had no requests for my manuscript. All I get is the standard, "while there's much to admire in y our submission, I don't think I am the right agent..." You know... the thing.
I agree with your comments about continuing to polish over the time spent waiting. Writers are always polishing their work, right up to the when they receive the galleys.
Here's my 'one-sentence pitch.'
"The Fake Memoir of a Mid-List Writer follows a lost, then found, young Don Quixote, tilting at the windmills of literary recognition and love outside his class."
Have a great day!
Hi Paul! I've been fairly successful in pitching my MS—happy to help out if you are serious about landing an agent and want to message me. Have a few tips that might help :)
Oh yeah. For sure. You know my story. Between 2011 and say 2021 I sent literally hundreds of queries to agents for multiple books. I got very close with one book specifically but, that being 2017 and me being a WSM and Trump being in power, it was...no dice. Point is: Keep going. It may take six months, a year. Clearly you're a solid writer.
Thank you, Michael! Fingers crossed!