More Turn Around
Oct. 17th, 2007 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cathschaffstumpGood bye to Stephen Barbara, who thought I had a good query letter, but that the project was wrong.
Hello to Ethan Ellenberg. I will wait until Halloween for Mr. Ellenberg, because if I haven't heard in that 2 week period, I won't.
Next up: Nathan Bransford.
Earnestly, I don't expect Ellenberg or Bransford. They are very popular and get a ton of submissions. But, you gotta knock on the doors, right?
Ooookay. Dinner, papers for tomorrow, and a chapter of actual editing. Seriously.
BTW, this:
http://www.querytracker.net
has pretty much eliminated my need to do a big list of agents. While I'll still look through Agent Query and Preditors and Editors, this service found me 216 agents to research AND helps me keep track of my queries. I will, as soon as I get the chance, send them $25 dollars to support the site. I could do it for free, but then I'd be a lowlife, and that wouldn't be cool.
At least email makes the whole query/rejection process so much faster. Remember kids, just because it's getting rejected doesn't mean it's not good. It means a lot of things, but it doesn't mean that.
Catherine
Hello to Ethan Ellenberg. I will wait until Halloween for Mr. Ellenberg, because if I haven't heard in that 2 week period, I won't.
Next up: Nathan Bransford.
Earnestly, I don't expect Ellenberg or Bransford. They are very popular and get a ton of submissions. But, you gotta knock on the doors, right?
Ooookay. Dinner, papers for tomorrow, and a chapter of actual editing. Seriously.
BTW, this:
http://www.querytracker.net
has pretty much eliminated my need to do a big list of agents. While I'll still look through Agent Query and Preditors and Editors, this service found me 216 agents to research AND helps me keep track of my queries. I will, as soon as I get the chance, send them $25 dollars to support the site. I could do it for free, but then I'd be a lowlife, and that wouldn't be cool.
At least email makes the whole query/rejection process so much faster. Remember kids, just because it's getting rejected doesn't mean it's not good. It means a lot of things, but it doesn't mean that.
Catherine
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Date: 2007-10-17 10:39 pm (UTC)Amen :)
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Date: 2007-10-18 12:41 am (UTC)PS--Thanks for the link:)
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Date: 2007-10-18 02:44 am (UTC)Catherine
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Date: 2007-10-18 12:07 pm (UTC)I love these tracker sorts of things--Ralan, Duotrope, well, and like this one that you're talking about. There's sub trackers, too, all sorts of things that sure do the job a lot better than I ever dreamed possible.
I'm from the days of pull out that year's Marketplace, look through a bazillion little paragraphs, try making lists; try keeping track of where the subs went, losing the lists--well, let's just spare us all and say I wasn't very good at it.
Some people really liked doing all that, but I think it's much better these days.