Your odds...

I read a lot of literary agents blogs, one being Jennifer Jackson.  She usually posts her query stats at the end of the week.  Here's this weeks:

# of query's read this week: 257
# of partials/full manuscripts requested: 1

That means you've got about a .0038% chance of getting a request after going out into the slush piles.  Geesh.  It amazes me how many people actually write and complete books.  They say everyone has at least one book in them.  Guess it's true.  I'm on to my 4th after all.

Sorry, just had to share.  It makes me feel a little better about not securing an agent yet.  :o)

I'm a glutton for punishment...

So call me crazy I guess but I made a off the wall decision yesterday to redo my query letter and sent it out to agents again. Yes, apparently I like rejection... lol. It's been a few months now since I sent it out and I feel a little more confident in my writing now. I've gotten some amazing feedback and now I've self-published it (which to some agents could be considered a bad thing...). And I just kind of figured "why not?"! We'll see how things go with getting the self-published copy out but in the mean time it doesn't hurt to send it back out to 10 or 12 agents again. The worst they can do is say no and I can deal with that. It doesn't hurt my feelings (anymore...). So here I go, out into the world of agents slush piles again!

It has begun again...

I started submitting my book to agents today!!! I sent it to about 7 different agents. I will continue to work on the editing of my book some but the query letter was done and ready so off it went to some! Hopefully I get at least one request for the full manuscript!

We're almost there!

I finished the first edit of Branded today! Yay! So now I just have to read through it one more time, checking for spelling and punctuation and anything else that doesn't sound right. I've gotten a rough draft of my query letter done and now I have to work on the synopsis which I HATE! Hopefully I'll be ready to send it out to agents a week from now!! YAY!

Anxious

I am so ready to be DONE with Branded! I have to say, I hate editing! I know it's necessary but it would be really nice to just write the first draft and be done! haha I'm about half way done with my first edit and my deadline for myself to have it finished is September 16th. I'm pretty sure I can do that but it's sometimes hard to motivate myself to sit down and do it.

I also started on my query letter and I'm fairly pleased with what I have so far. I think I am going to ask my writing group I go to once a month to take a look at it and tell me what they think. I am starting to get excited again about submitting to agents (and all the rejections I'll get, haha). Anyway, back to work!