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I think the dating analogy sums it up perfectly. We want our writing to look fun, but sane; entertaining, but down-to-earth; flawlessly perfect, but human; warm and friendly, but self-assured and not obsessed by what others think of it. And of course, once we have sent it off we are DESPERATE to know what you think of it, but we dare not contact you too often for fear of looking too eager.

Forgive the lateness in replying to this post, but I just discovered your agency’s blog.

Thank you for your post on this subject. It is nice to hear your perspective. Several years ago I presented a paper at an international conference of historians of science and I approached the assistant to an editor at a major university publishing house. She was interested in my subject and encouraged me to send a CV and book proposal.

It took me awhile to get the book proposal vetted and polished, and so it was not as timely a follow up as it could have been to the conference. However, I included references to the conference and the assistant’s name in my cover letter.

Ironically, the letter was dated September 10, 2001. I waited, and waited. Two months passed and I hadn’t heard anything. It was getting near Christmas, and I thought the holiday season might be a bad time to annoy them by calling.

In January, I sent an email asking politely if they had received my book proposal. No reply.

I waited a week or so and then left a voice mail, asking politely if they had received my book proposal.

No reply. And I never received the proposal back in its SASE.

I wound up just writing it off as their passive rejection. But it would have been nice if they had responded to me, either by phone or by email.

Now, I use “track and confirm” from the U.S. Postal Service. For about 35 cents I can, from the convenience of my own home, see if a package was delivered. Of course it doesn’t guarantee it won’t get lost in the mail room or on someone’s desk, but at least I’ll know it got in the front door.

And I wholeheartedly agree that if you wish to be treated with professional respect, you should treat people with professional respect.

Thank you again for sharing your perspective,

Linda

I agree w/ Jackie. Writing isn’t something that most people understand. It’s a solo act written for an audience that you can only imagine. Most people will say they’ve always wanted to write a novel. A lot of them start, but far more quit than stay with it. It’s really hard work, and often the work far exceeds the pay.

Fortunately those of us who are lucky enough to have other friends who are writers, blow stuff by them. Without them, I can’t imagine staying with it for so long.

And let me just say as someone who has had a professional interaction with D&G, you are highly professional and incredibly responsive.

Congrats on the blog!
-Matt

Would it? I wonder. When The Da Vinci Code came out, I looked at the first page, thought it wasn’t very well written, and decided, “This thing’ll never sell!”

Books are not a marvellously written query or synopsis. But one should be able to tell from the first sentence or paragraph if this is a book they want to continue with.

Yet we have books, symposiums, and web sites all devoted to “how to write the perfect query letter.” I can imagine an author who writes marvellous query letters but terrible books; but I can’t imagine how an agent could know whether to accept a book or not based on a query.

Jackie that was an amazing comment…you should be a writer. 😉

Thanks for a delightful post!

Liane