The good news came via email. A agent whom I had spoken with in November at a writer's conference likes the first 30 pages and wants to see the entire manuscript of Promiscuous Mode.
A few morsels of interest: a) agent did not seem terribly enthused by the concept, but said he would look at it anyway, because the "writing might be good." b) agent changed jobs between the time I sent the pages and now c) I tracked agent to new job and reminded him of my submission.
This manuscript has been read in toto by one other agent who really liked it but was gun shy due to being a brand new agent and had submitted stuff which editors did not like.
I still have a few queries out there for this novel, including one that will soon be two (or is it three) years old; a requested manuscript to an agent who refused to respond to phone call and email until I finally gave us. Gosh, a simple "sorry not for me," would have sufficed.
On the Festival Madness front, I cranked out 12 pages over the past two days and rewrote them about 15 times each, well, maybe only seven. It is fun to see the improvement in each draft.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
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Congratulations on the good news. I'll keep hoping for you that it will work out!
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