The Quest #15

So I took a look through my master list of queries and decided to get querying again. Some of the agents have had my query since spring and I doubt that they are going to select my book. I also saw two notes on my list about agents who won’t respond when they reject you. Gee, thanks. That is not a helpful system. I should have considered their silence as a rejection after a month. So I’m going to start looking again until I have ten active queries out there.

On a side note, I think that’s a rude way to go about things. Someone takes their art to you and says ‘I’ll give you a percent if you represent me’, and you don’t even have the time to send them a boilerplate rejection of ‘sorry but this didn’t hit me’. It’s can’t take that much time.

Anyway. I continue to learn Kit’s email lists. Lots of YouTube tutorials. I want to hit the ground running with my email list and there is a lot to learn. I also think that I will redo my website to make it read cleaner.

In other writing news, I recently submitted the first chapter of a novella The Peacock and got some good feedback. I need to describe the characters a little more and clean up a mistake or two. I am submitting the next chapter for the next meeting. I’ll keep submitting until I go through the whole thing. I think there’s twelve chapters for about 53,000 words.

I found it very difficult the first time around when I was writing the chapters and submitting them, because then I had to look back as I was moving forward. So going forward I will never edit a book while I’m writing it. It just makes things unproductive.

The quest continues!

Michael