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It is taking up to four weeks for most agents to respond, or longer, and a good number are not responding at all, despite each query being personalized (not form) and accompanied by an SASE. I will typically send out 5 to 10 queries at once, to carefully selected agents, then wait a few weeks for replies, before considering another batch of mailings, if I have not received interest from any agent.

Just wanted to further illustrate my point and convey to you that my queries are never written haphazardly. In fact, some of the replies I receive from agents contain gross misspellings and poor letter format. Being a teacher with a dual Masters and a published writer, I am perplexed that what agents demand in queries, they do not match in their replies.

“A quick turndown is a submission that has obviously been sent to many other agents and editors. Most of the time, I simply don’t find this kind of wholesale submission attractive and, because there is so much else on my plate, as soon as I see that the material has been indiscriminately submitted to others, even to agents at my own agency, I pass and go on to the next idea.”

Ms. Dystel, with utmost respect for you I must ask: Do you expect writers to submit to just one agent at a time? When most agents take up to 4 weeks to respond, and some do not reply at all?! To expect writers to send an average of one query per month, and wait to hear from that respective agent before sending another, is vastly unfair and rather elitest in thought. Do you submit to just one publisher when you send out your client’s work? Or multiple publishers? The goal is to solicit interest. Furthermore, if adhering to the “rules” insinuated by your comments, a writer could spend a year sending out no more than 12 queries, and by then life has passed him by, as has the timeliness of his work.

Please reconsider your statement and position on simultaneous submissions. It is vastly unfair to writers when so much is turned down and so much is subjective (on what side of the pillow any given agent awakes on a particular morning).

Thank you for your time.

I think part of the reason for the increase in revenues is that people are buying more hardcovers and fewer paperbacks. Hardcovers are more expensive than paperbacks, so revenues are going up.

Another reason is that books in general cost more than ever. Adjusted for inflation, the numbers may not look quite so good. (Similarly, if you adjust for inflation, Gone With the Wind is still the number-one grossing movie.)

Even so, it’s nice to know that there’s still money to be made in publishing!

After all, people don’t usually go in search of buying something that the don’t know exists.