I Don't Go To Bed Until...

... I write and send five queries, until I've reached 20 queries this week (I query in 20-agent batches).

Jenny Bent of Trident Media Group (my first manuscript request), passed on the book, but had great praise for me, calling me a "talented writer" (this woman has had 16 NYTimes bestsellers, so I was very appreciative of that) and praising the book's storyline, but the descriptive prose was not for her. I wasn't disappointed, but instead was very appreciative that she had taken a serious look at it. I had gotten a manuscript request from another agent just a day or so before the email from Jenny, so it's not like weeks and weeks pass before someone else wants to look at it. I am sure I will have the right representation when it is the right time for me. In the meantime, I keep sending the queries out. Doing this in incremental batches feels much easier to me. Before I go back to work at the end of the month, I will have turned to doing a bunch of mail queries as well.

So it goes. I am glad to be doing this--though I have to say that email querying is a little bit addictive!