St. Cochrane's World/Agenting Issues

[dbara]

Sent off the (requested) full manuscript to the nice people @ virtual tales today.

On the other issue:  At almost the exact same instant I received a rejection (on Reunion Day) from an agency that had read my query letter, synopsis, and first 5 pages; then requested the first 50 pages be submitted.  It was this partial that was rejected.

Now here

Comments

[dynastic_queen]

In my humble opinion, no. Not out of line.

How did you find out the agent never saw it? Just curious...

[dbara]

The rejection note from the assistant made it very clear. It is also consistent with what others writers have reported.

[barnardagency]

Wow, that's horrible. That's one of my main issues with the whole publishing/agent industry. I fell the same way about books reviews, but don't get me started on that...

One of the reasons it takes me so long to get through my submissions is that I personally read the first 5 pages of every submission. I don't hire people to wade through my "slushpile" I pull on my boots and dig in myself. Once it gets past me, then the hired help often comes in to help with editing. But lately I have even refused to pass that along.

I guess it's the control freak in me...

[dbara]

I think every agent has a right to have help screening the landslide of submissions, if that's their choice. But again,I do think once you pass the "can this person write at all" phase then the agent has some kind of obligation to read the submission, especially if it has been requested of the author by the agency.

Wish you took sci-fi...

db

[barnardagency]

I have been willing to look at dark-oriented sc-fi if not too overly dominated by technology...if that helps at all.

*grin*

But my caveat to all...I am very picky...