
It’s been a few weeks since I sent out my first queries to literary agents. So far, no bites — just a few rejections.
Luckily, I’m immune to rejections. (I’ve been a freelance writer for a few years, so I’m used to them.) Also, I’m thankful they’ve all been good non-form-letter rejections — each responded to specific things I’d said in my query, which is encouraging.
If I don’t have any luck with anyone from this group, I have another batch of queries ready to go out in May…
In the meanwhile, here are a few more sites offering advice on how to get an agent:
- Literary agents: a four-part series from Writing.org
- Words of Wisdom to Snatch a Literary Agent from FreelanceWriting.com
- Literary Agents – Answers and Advice from TaraKHarper.com
[...] Of all the agent queries I sent out last month, so far I’ve received responses to 70% of them — and they’ve all been rejections. So now it’s about time to send out the next batch. [...]