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 manuscript. That resulted in a lack of communication as well, and in October I finally gave up. Since then, five of the authors she signed up have walked. Surprise, surprise, one of the authors cites lack of communication as the reason.
Was I just unlucky with my choice of agents? Perhaps, but it has certainly hardened my heart and I don't think I'll regard 'industry professionals' with quite as much respect in the future.
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 manuscript. That resulted in a lack of communication as well, and in October I finally gave up. Since then, five of the authors she signed up have walked. Surprise, surprise, one of the authors cites lack of communication as the reason.
Was I just unlucky with my choice of agents? Perhaps, but it has certainly hardened my heart and I don't think I'll regard 'industry professionals' with quite as much respect in the future.
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