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- January 13th, 2011, 6:06 pm
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: in search of a writing conference
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2808
Re: in search of a writing conference
It depends on where you live. The Muse and the Marketplace conference hosted by Grub Street writers in Boston, MA is a good one. There are many excellent and well known authors, agents, editors and other industry professionals who present there. You can meet with an agent or editor and even eat lunc...
- January 8th, 2011, 9:10 am
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: Rejection Stats
- Replies: 227
- Views: 149145
Re: Rejection Stats
Okay, so I was wondering how many rejections it took before you guys started working on your query again? I sent 4 or 5 queries in the first run - got a few rejections and some silence - and I revised - sent two more queries - got rejections and tweaked the query again - this third time - a full re...
- January 2nd, 2011, 11:36 am
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: Full Requests
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3453
Re: Requests for Fulls and MONTHS of silence
Thanks guys. The query only request is an interesting thought. I hadn't really paid much attention to that yet. Going back to my spread sheet I see that all but 1 of the Full requests came from Query + pages (10 - 30). The partials I am not sure because they were both from the first round and were s...
- December 31st, 2010, 3:17 pm
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: Full Requests
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3453
Full Requests
How long is too long to hear back from an agent after they have requests a manuscript. I am finding it hard at the four month mark to think anything but it was lost. I did nudge to see if in fact it had arrived - but no response. I will keep waiting of course - but is there a point when one can just...
- April 10th, 2010, 5:32 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: QUERY: DISTILLATION - REVISED AGAIN
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3732
QUERY: DISTILLATION - REVISED AGAIN
Dear Agent: Alice Towne refuses to be like her mother. Infidelity having tarnished the life she planned, the last place she wants to be is home with Josephine, who pines over bad decisions and waits for fate to deal a better hand from the tarot deck. Determined to prove she is strong and independent...
- April 9th, 2010, 5:51 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query - MG - THE WHISPERING FERNS
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6924
Re: Query - MG - THE WHISPERING FERNS
Dear Makemy Dreamscometrue, The only adventurous thing eleven-year-old James “Smith” Campbell ever did was try and run away to the Smithsonian, and he made it one block away and got a nickname out of that. color=#0080BF] You could just delete the underlined part and it would be the same - trust the ...
- April 7th, 2010, 2:40 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: REVISED QUERY: Distillation - a New England ghost story
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2625
REVISED QUERY: Distillation - a New England ghost story
Thanks to everyone who gave feedback. It was enormously helpful. I have cut almost 100 words and I have tried to make it more specific . The historical bit mentioned at the end is that in the mid-1700's the town this story takes place in refused burial in consecrated ground to a man "of uncommo...
- April 7th, 2010, 2:35 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Distillation - a New England ghost story
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4630
REVISED QUERY: Distillation - a New England ghost story
Thanks to everyone who gave feedback. It was enormously helpful. I have cut almost 100 words and I have tried to make it more specific . The historical bit mentioned at the end is that in the mid-1700's the town this story takes place in refused burial in consecrated ground to a man "of uncommo...
- April 7th, 2010, 7:55 am
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query - MG - THE WHISPERING FERNS
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6924
Re: Query - MG - THE WHISPERING FERNS
Dear Makemy Dreamscometrue, The most adventurous thing eleven year old James “Smith” Campbell ever did was try and run away to the Smithsonian, and he only got one block away and a nickname out of that. However, when Smith is sent to stay with his cousins in the mysterious little fishing village of ...
- April 5th, 2010, 6:21 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Distillation - a New England ghost story
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4630
Distillation - a New England ghost story
Go ahead - do your best/worst. Any feedback is appreciated. Haunted by the superstitious lore of her mother, Alice Towne hasn’t been able to shake the feeling that something is not right. When she looks in the mirror, she sees only the outline of a person drawn by someone else, and not the person sh...
- April 5th, 2010, 6:18 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: QUERY - THE NAMELESS
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4804
Re: QUERY - THE NAMELESS
Eighteen-year-old Erica Ann Dawson falls asleep in her bed in Batesfield, Connecticut and awakens to find herself driving down a four-lane highway. Is the name of the town central to the plot? Is it needed in the Query. I know I have one in mine too - and that is a question I have asked myself- and ...