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letters from the query wars 1/7/2011

Jan 07, 2011 22:16

Despite the fact that I did not end up posting much during the holiday season, I did keep responding to queries. Details ( Read more... )

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Tuesday List of Awesome pingback_bot January 11 2011, 16:03:09 UTC

User sisik referenced to your post from Tuesday List of Awesome saying: [...] g. It’s very interesting. Jennifer Jackson also does a weekly Letters from the Query Wars [...]

anonymous January 12 2011, 02:31:31 UTC

Is everyone at the Maass Agency as caught up as you? I sent an e-query back on 12/9/10 to the "info" email address, but haven't heard anything. I followed the submission guidelines, and the site says everyone who does will receive a response--yay or nay. I'm just wondering if my query was never received...

helpful anonymous January 17 2011, 19:28:08 UTC

As a writer struggling to get published, I find these numbers very interesting. Using your 2010 figures, 1 in 191 queries resulted in a request. And 1 in 7835 secured representation.

Lotta competition out there.

Thanks for posting those stats.

-- mark.boss.writer@gmail.com