Queryitis: Exploring Treatment Options
Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogelAnother query sent!
And two other agents crossed off my list, for reasons varying from genre incompatibility to having left the business. Another moved to the "maybe later" list, as it turns out I queried one of his coworkers a couple weeks ago.
As I'm wandering the web and come across leads on interesting agents, I bookmark them. Later, when it's query time, I do the full research thing, reading blogs & interviews, checking P&E & Absolute Write, etc. Since it's a lot faster to bookmark an agent who sounds promising on first contact than to do due diligence, I've accumulated a lengthy list of potentials, so lengthy that I despaired of ever getting through them all.
I just checked out the last agent on the list.
I'm not done. There are resources I haven't exhausted yet, including at least one database that lets you search by genre. But it's darned disconcerting to get to the end of what seemed an inexhaustible list -- especially since I haven't gotten anyone to read the book yet.
And two other agents crossed off my list, for reasons varying from genre incompatibility to having left the business. Another moved to the "maybe later" list, as it turns out I queried one of his coworkers a couple weeks ago.
As I'm wandering the web and come across leads on interesting agents, I bookmark them. Later, when it's query time, I do the full research thing, reading blogs & interviews, checking P&E & Absolute Write, etc. Since it's a lot faster to bookmark an agent who sounds promising on first contact than to do due diligence, I've accumulated a lengthy list of potentials, so lengthy that I despaired of ever getting through them all.
I just checked out the last agent on the list.
I'm not done. There are resources I haven't exhausted yet, including at least one database that lets you search by genre. But it's darned disconcerting to get to the end of what seemed an inexhaustible list -- especially since I haven't gotten anyone to read the book yet.
