Summoning the Ghost Agent
Dear Ponti,
Is there such a thing as a “dream agent?”
– Writer with a Dream
Portrait of a boy sitting on top of books and reading.Dear Writer with a Dream,
I have a friend who is in the querying trenches right now, and she wrote me recently to express her frustration with the querying process. She had gotten her hopes up after an agent requested her manuscript with the promise to get back to her shortly. Of course, wait times being what they are in the publishing industry, “shortly” could mean anything. The agent asked her to check back if she didn’t hear anything, so my friend patiently waited a few weeks before following up.
My friend was anxious for a response since she had put so much of herself into her most recent manuscript and she wanted to know if this agent would recognize the book’s potential…
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