BelieversPress » Submitting to Agents http://www.believerspress.com Publish Your Way! Publish with BelieversPress or custom build your ideal publishing model from a full suite of professional self publishing services. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:09:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Janet Reid offers some rejection statistics http://www.believerspress.com/blog/2010/01/05/janet-reid-offers-some-rejection-statistics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=janet-reid-offers-some-rejection-statistics http://www.believerspress.com/blog/2010/01/05/janet-reid-offers-some-rejection-statistics/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:40:56 +0000 nick ciske http://www.believerspress.com/?p=2687 FinePrint Literary Management recently kept track of how she responded to 124 novels. It’s a fascinating look at the current market for novels:
Periodically I’ve posted tallies of my replies to incoming query letters. After one of those posts I realized that it might be interesting to keep tabs on what happens when I request a full. I started keeping notes sometime this summer. Between that date and today, I requested 124 full novels. Here’s what happened: Just plain not good enough: 21 (a novel needs to be in the 99th percentile-these were closer to 90%–not bad, but not good enough) Good premise, but the rest of the novel didn’t hold up: 11 Not compelling or vivid, or focused; no plot/tension: 10 …
Read the rest at her blog. Bonus: She also has a list of items that will get you an instant rejection from her (and likely other agents): How to Make Sure Your Query Is Instantly Rejected]]> http://www.believerspress.com/blog/2010/01/05/janet-reid-offers-some-rejection-statistics/feed/ 0 Interpreting the “Response Speak” Agents Use http://www.believerspress.com/blog/2009/09/18/interpreting-the-response-speak-agents-use-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interpreting-the-response-speak-agents-use-2 http://www.believerspress.com/blog/2009/09/18/interpreting-the-response-speak-agents-use-2/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:29:18 +0000 admin http://www.believerspress.com/?p=2109 Form response: Don’t interpret anything. It could mean just about anything under the sun. Form response with personal comment Submission was interesting enough for the agent to make a comment. Don’t interpret too much. It’s the nature of the comment that is important here. If it’s “I just didn’t fall in love” that could mean anything from concept isn’t right or writing isn’t quite there yet. If comment is something along the lines of “see talent here but not right for me”, well that’s encouraging. Read the rest of Response Speak at PubRants.]]> http://www.believerspress.com/blog/2009/09/18/interpreting-the-response-speak-agents-use-2/feed/ 0 Interpreting the "Response Speak" Agents Use http://www.believerspress.com/blog/2009/09/18/interpreting-the-response-speak-agents-use/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interpreting-the-response-speak-agents-use http://www.believerspress.com/blog/2009/09/18/interpreting-the-response-speak-agents-use/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:29:18 +0000 nick ciske http://www.believerspress.com/?p=2109 Form response: Don’t interpret anything. It could mean just about anything under the sun. Form response with personal comment Submission was interesting enough for the agent to make a comment. Don’t interpret too much. It’s the nature of the comment that is important here. If it’s “I just didn’t fall in love” that could mean anything from concept isn’t right or writing isn’t quite there yet. If comment is something along the lines of “see talent here but not right for me”, well that’s encouraging. Read the rest of Response Speak at PubRants.]]> http://www.believerspress.com/blog/2009/09/18/interpreting-the-response-speak-agents-use/feed/ 0