Going back over my previous entries I realized that I never did post the end result of sending a sample chapter by request to an agency that expressed interest in my book based on my query letter.
Basically, they sent back a fairly generic rejection letter:
Thank you so much for sending
sample pages of SPIRIT’S END. After a careful reading, we are sorry to say that we don’t believe that we are the right agency for you.
You deserve an enthusiastic representative, so we recommend that you pursue other agents. After all, it just takes one “yes” and with so many different opinions out there, you could easily find the right match.
Good luck with all your publishing endeavors.
Truthfully, I expect to see a lot more like this as I go through this process.
I’ve been rather lax in my submissions to agents lately… in the sense that I haven’t made any. I’ve been tweaking Spirit’s End a little more, working on the begninning of a new book, building my list of targeted agents and publishers, and doing the December holiday thing. I plan to resume submitting around the end of the month – hopefully that will allow enough time for industry folks to have cleared out their “slush piles” of works to review that have built up over the winter vacation season.