This week’s queries:
Michael Bourret of Dystel and Goderich
Alyssa Eisner Henkin of Trident Media Group
Uwe Stender of TriadaUS
Scott Miller of Trident Media Group
Eric Myers of The Spieler Agency
And three returns:
Merrilee Heifetz of Writer’s House
Kat Tienstra of KT Public Relations and Literary Services
Uwe Stender of TriadaUS (my, he’s friendly and fast!)
That’s the writing gig for Monday night!
Catherine
(I figured why not comment here rather than LJ)
Are you keeping an Excel file or database of all the agents you query? I started doing that in a text file, but I petered out. I’ve queried a number of the same agents you have (but it was a year or two ago, mostly) and I think they’re the top of the list. It would be cool to have an Excel file that you could keep on your website or someplace for writers to look at to see how many agents it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll. Someone on a romance list did that and she had over 125 entries with the agents’ addresses, emails, results (sent partial on date, sent full on date, rejection on date), and so forth. That was interesting to look at! But even if you don’t put your file out there, it might be a cool thing to keep. Just a thought, as you’re already documenting to some extent. . . .
Shalanna:
What I do is I go to querytracker.net. They do a lot of this record keeping for me. I figure after I’ve exhausted my avenues, I’ll probably compile a statistical overview on Substance before I start slush-piling it.
Catherine