I'm embarking on the Agent Quest today. I've tweaked the Query Letter of Doom once again (and I'd stop doing that if it didn't keep getting better every time I did), and now I'm going to start personalizing the letter for each agent and shipping the thing out.
WHY am I more nervous about this than I am about sending out actual manuscripts to
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And of course, I'm second-guessing myself now. I just sent the first five pages to an agent, and those five pages have no spec element and consist of Ben getting the absolute shit beaten out of him for information he doesn't actually have. The scene serves multiple purposes and the spec element shows up in the next one, but damn.
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I guess if what I sent him grabs him, he'll ask for more. I ended it on a bit of a cliffhanger, if he gets that far. Because I'm evil.
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Possibly because the stakes are higher here than they are with the short stories, by an order of magnitude...
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