I recently read a blog post from an agent about the stages agents go through. She broke it down in a way that made a light bulb click in my mind. I’ve queried about fifteen agents within the past six months. I have gotten a fair number of requests out of the queries and the response I have gotten has been positive, but no offers of representation, yet - must keep that positive note there. The resounding comment I have gotten from agents is they just don’t think they could sell what I’m querying in this ‘full market’. In some ways I could pass this off as a nice form of rejection, but since I had a conversation with a NY editor recently who basically told me the same thing I tend to believe what they are saying. Also after reading the blog post it is very clear to me, that I have been targeting mid to late career agents, so in some little way her post actually makes me feel a little better about the ‘passes’. Why? I’m not completely sure. Maybe it has to do with the fact I have gotten so many that say the same thing, good/great voice, competent author, etc. A couple had writing compliments but just didn’t ‘love’ or ‘fall in love with’ the plot for my query project. I’m branching out… I have found a beta reader, who’s general reading opinion I value, so I am taking a step to see what might make the plot stronger, of course, there is always the next project J

The question in my mind has become, what do I do now? Or what do I do next? I think for now I choose to stew on this, I still have some queries/request out. I have a beta reader for a general opinion and I have a wip that I could work on, but for now I started something completely and totally different, something I have wanted to so for a very long time, so I plan to focus on it for the next month and see what happens next.