So last Friday lunchtime I sent off four query letters to agents. Being used to the film and tv world I expected the sound of silence for weeks if not months. Imagine my surprise when all four responded within hours asking for the first 10k.
It is indeed a strange land!
Two of them asked for a detailed synopsis as well. Which of course I hadn't done. Luckily having whipped up treatments at short notice in the past I wasn't much fazed by this but for someone who maybe isn't used to it then maybe forewarned is forearmed.
You can see from the above I am a dummy at this and of course everyone else already has a detailed synopsis already written.
So with packages duly emailed back to them on Monday I sat back to wait in the expectation it would be some time before I heard anything.
On Thursday I got a request from one of them for the full manuscript. Now, as I've said, I'm a dummy at this game but that speed of reply is something that I know all you TV veterans out there think only survives in a world of chocolate lampposts and candy cotton clouds.
But it's true I tells ya. Just like in Waterworld, that fabled dry land does exist.
Okay it may just mean I get to hear my rejections quicker, but hey. The point is I guess, that if I had gone by normal TV timetables for reading material, I would have been tempted to have sent
out the first 10k while I still had another 20k to write, thinking I'd be finished by the time anyone got back to me.
Far as I can see that is a definite no-no. If an agent gets back to you in a timely and professional manner I figure the last thing he wants to hear is 'I haven't finished it yet'.
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Frak! I'm still reeling for you...that's crazy fast compared to our usual world.
It's good to have you back.
Fingers crossed for the book.
If you feel like sharing, what genre is it? My money's on some sort of sci-fi eroticism.
It'll be cool to see how things pan out.
Way-hey! He's here again!
Best of luck with the MS.
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