Submission metrics (because I'm guessing only my writer-friends are nuts enough to be keeping up with blogs on a Sunday):
13 queries rejected
2 partials requested
2 partials rejected
4 non-responders
5 queries going out the door tomorrow.*
After this I'm down to two agencies who aren't accepting submissions right now and five that I'm lukewarm on for various reasons -- usually that they don't have a science fiction backlist. And after that, it's down to publisher submissions, which I'm distinctly unenthused about. They tend to be slower than agents, and I have less hope for the submissions.
And after that I decide whether I want to plunge into the morass that is small publishing. Sorting out the good, the bad, and the merely incompetent was enough work when it was agents. And I am already suffering Revision Syndrome with this book. (aka, "No one wants my book. I wonder why... wait! Wait! It's just come to me! I know the problem! And all it will take is ripping apart the plot, adding another point of view, redoing most of the stuff I've already written, and then somehow getting rid of the extra 50,000 words that this will add to an already borderline wordcount, and it'll be VIRTUALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM A MARKETING PERSPECTIVE!")
Or maybe I'll just chalk it up to the learning process and write a different book.
Not yet, though. For now, I submit. AND write another book, assuming I have spare time again at some point in the next decade.
*For the truly curious (or those building their own submit-to list) the rejections were from Maya Rock, Eleanor Wood, Joshua Bilmes, Kimberley Cameron, Jennifer Jackson, Matt Bialer, Barbara Bova, Shana Cohen, Brian Townsell, Ethan Ellenberg, Rachel Vater, and Caitlin Blasdell. Almost all of those have listings on my agent page (I'm behind. And some of 'em are hard to find info for.)
The partials were Kristin Nelson and Susan Anne Protter.
The non-responders are Peter Rubie (51 days and counting), Russell Galen (68 days and counting), Shawna McCarthy (114 days and counting), and Jack Byrne (151 days and counting.) Rubie probably hasn't gotten around to it, and Galen apparently often doesn't respond unless he's interested. The other two... well, something has clearly gone wrong in the process. I'll probably resubmit soonish.
The queries going out today are to Jenny Rappaport, Jane Chelius, Nikki Van De Car, Elizabeth Little, and Richard Henshaw.
There, aren't you sorry you asked?
13 queries rejected
2 partials requested
2 partials rejected
4 non-responders
5 queries going out the door tomorrow.*
After this I'm down to two agencies who aren't accepting submissions right now and five that I'm lukewarm on for various reasons -- usually that they don't have a science fiction backlist. And after that, it's down to publisher submissions, which I'm distinctly unenthused about. They tend to be slower than agents, and I have less hope for the submissions.
And after that I decide whether I want to plunge into the morass that is small publishing. Sorting out the good, the bad, and the merely incompetent was enough work when it was agents. And I am already suffering Revision Syndrome with this book. (aka, "No one wants my book. I wonder why... wait! Wait! It's just come to me! I know the problem! And all it will take is ripping apart the plot, adding another point of view, redoing most of the stuff I've already written, and then somehow getting rid of the extra 50,000 words that this will add to an already borderline wordcount, and it'll be VIRTUALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM A MARKETING PERSPECTIVE!")
Or maybe I'll just chalk it up to the learning process and write a different book.
Not yet, though. For now, I submit. AND write another book, assuming I have spare time again at some point in the next decade.
*For the truly curious (or those building their own submit-to list) the rejections were from Maya Rock, Eleanor Wood, Joshua Bilmes, Kimberley Cameron, Jennifer Jackson, Matt Bialer, Barbara Bova, Shana Cohen, Brian Townsell, Ethan Ellenberg, Rachel Vater, and Caitlin Blasdell. Almost all of those have listings on my agent page (I'm behind. And some of 'em are hard to find info for.)
The partials were Kristin Nelson and Susan Anne Protter.
The non-responders are Peter Rubie (51 days and counting), Russell Galen (68 days and counting), Shawna McCarthy (114 days and counting), and Jack Byrne (151 days and counting.) Rubie probably hasn't gotten around to it, and Galen apparently often doesn't respond unless he's interested. The other two... well, something has clearly gone wrong in the process. I'll probably resubmit soonish.
The queries going out today are to Jenny Rappaport, Jane Chelius, Nikki Van De Car, Elizabeth Little, and Richard Henshaw.
There, aren't you sorry you asked?
posted at 08:45 PM on 07/23/06
by kat -
Category: Writing
Stumble It!
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quasipsycohttp://quasipsyco.livejournal. wrote:
07/26/06 09:07 AM
When I get my novel done, I'll have to run through your list. It will make my future hunting easer.
Thank you Pathbreaker. '-)