UPDATE - 06 APR 16
I submitted the first 50 pages of Truthseeker to a 'reputable' literary agent in London last October. In early December I received a request for the full manuscript. Great, I thought. Progress! Three months passed without any response. I gave them a polite nudge and waited patiently. Still no response. Might have been filtered out as spam, I thought so I sent another polite email. Guess what? No response. Whilst I can understand that no response equals no interest for unsolicited queries, I do believe an inquiry regarding a full manuscript deserves some form of reply. To completely ignore an author's request for information is, quite frankly, rude. Mind you, I shouldn't have been surprised. A thread on Absolute Write regarding this agent is filled with complaints of this nature. The sad thing is that this kind of behaviour appears to be fairly widespread. I submitted material to an an agent in the US in February 2015 and received a request for the full manus...