STATUS: It’s almost 10 p.m. at night. That pretty much sums it up.
What’s playing on the iPod right now? THANK YOU by Dido
I’m ashamed to say that I am now officially a month behind in reading queries. All those writers probably have agents by now. So if you’ve been waiting, I do apologize and I plan to tackle and vanquish in the next 3 days. I only have 156 of them waiting for me (gulp)!
Also, I just found out that our server went down last Friday, June 20th between 4 and 5 p.m. Mountain time. If you tried to send us a query during that time frame, it bounced and you probably received a message that there was no such emailbox.
Sorry about that. According to our tech person (who knows way more about this than I do), it was a corrupted configuration file and that file manages the valid email addresses on the server.
So you’ll have to resend it as during that time period (and that time period only!), we weren’t receiving any incoming emails.
Hi – Good news! you only have 155 queries as I resent mine when it hit the 4 week mark and I hadn’t heard from you. Now you’ve requested a 30 page partial (already sent), so that’s one query you can ignore!
Happy reading
Good luck on the reading, only 156.. gosh lady all you have to do is wear your undies on the outside and you’ll get through it with your agenting superpowers… or probably not. I wonder what superpowers agents really have?
“I’m ashamed to say that I am now officially a month behind in reading queries. All those writers probably have agents by now. So if you’ve been waiting, I do apologize and I plan to tackle and vanquish in the next 3 days. I only have 156 of them waiting for me (gulp)!”
Yes, I submitted to you as you were my number one choice. After no response, I submitted to ten other agents and they are now madly scrambling to sign me up.
Did I tell you I write fantasy?
I’m sure all will be well. From past experience it’s not unusual to hear from an agent long after I thought they used my query as fire starter.
It’s nice that you are concerned, but I think it goes with the territory and most authors understand.
Speaking of queries….
Just so you guys all know, Kristin was kind enough to do an interview over at my blog, bethanyhensel.blogspot.com. She talked about how she came to be an agent, talks about queries, and gives advice to authors.
It’s a pretty cool interview, if I do say so myself!
Bethany
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Ah, those pesky computer demons. They’ve been busy. 🙂
Kristin
While we love the insight you provide and the fact that you provide it five days a week, if you want to take a few days off to focus on more important things, we promise to be patient.
“All those writers probably have agents by now.”
The best laugh I’ve had all day!
I wonder what superpowers agents really have?
Just a guess, but I’m assuming “can leap tall transoms at a single bound.” 🙂
I only have 156 of them waiting for me (gulp)!
Sounds like popcorn time…
And Julie W — rofl.
LOL. “All authors are now agented.” If, by some strange cosmic occurence, the fact that you did not respond to these authors within moments of their submission caused all 156 to be agented immediately, you will soon have 156 fervent letters of thanks.
Beth, yes, wouldn’t that be a lovely fantasy?
Technically if your server was only down for an hour, then you would have loss no incoming email, since email servers usually try for 72 hours to contact another email server before bouncing back… usually.