Slowly but surely I’m getting back into my post-Comic-Con rhythm, sending out more letters to agents. This week was pretty interesting, as I heard back from four different agents. I got the usual "thanks, but no thanks" letters, but I also got one that kinda threw me off balance.
In one day I heard from three different agents–it just seems to go that way; all or nothing–and one of the letters started off like this:
"Dear Russ,
Thanks you for your letter regarding Slowly but surely I’m getting back into my post-Comic-Con rhythm, sending out more letters to agents. This week was pretty interesting, as I heard back from four different agents. I got the usual "thanks, but no thanks" letters, but I also got one that kinda threw me off balance.
In one day I heard from three different agents–it just seems to go that way; all or nothing–and one of the letters started off like this:
"Dear Russ,
Thanks you for your letter regarding [i]Finders Keepers[/i]. Because of the high volume of submissions we receive, (we are) quite selective about which projects we decide to review."
– which translates to, "sorry dude. Hit the bricks." But then it went on –
"However, in this case, we would like to take a look at a sample of your work."
The ole’ fake-out letter.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy that they want to see pages. That’s great. I can’t get enough requests for pages. It’s just that they seemed to be leading me down one path, and then abruptly changed course.
But hey, just another wrinkle in this goofy quest to land an agent. And as long as they want pages, I pretty much don’t care how the letters start out.
This week I also sent out pages to another agent who requested sample pages, so all in all I’ve been flowing in the right direction.
As always, I’ll keep you posted …
