Query 100 Agents

These numbers will tell you why you should make a pact with yourself to query at least 100 agents:

Number of agents I queried in an eight-month period: 83

Number that did not respond at all: 35

Number that rejected my initial query: 32

Number that requested more material and then rejected it: 11

Number that were reading it when I got a two offers of representation: 5

The query process for my literary novel in 2010 wasa long eight months of highs and lows and more lows. Giving up was not an op...