tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508393569905441472.post8175979901107328988..comments2022-11-14T05:26:22.598-05:00Comments on Fantasy Unbound with Rachel Haimowitz: Torn Asunder with Kiki Howell, and a Moment of SqueeRachel Haimowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06006372617337483862noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508393569905441472.post-54882832845569347732011-03-17T06:14:12.092-04:002011-03-17T06:14:12.092-04:00Thanks Kiki! I've had surprisingly good succes...Thanks Kiki! I've had surprisingly good success with getting partial and full requests from queries--about 20% of my queries so far have resulted in agents asking for extra material. But so far I've only heard back from three agents on the fulls, and all three have been rejections. I hit up #askagent on twitter and the two participating agents ballparked (they hadn't kept track) that only about 1 in 100 requests for fulls result in an offer of representation, which is kind of :O :O :O when you think about how few queries ever even result in requests for fulls (probably about the same 1 in 100), but I'm staying relentlessly positive, damn it :D The pitch contest was sort of a different thing than cold-querying, since they had to pick "winners" (which may have meant more or fewer requests than would normally have come from that batch of queries--who knows), but no matter how this one turns out, I'll walk away with that query critique, and that's worth every second I spent on polishing the pitch and entering the contest :DRachel Haimowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06006372617337483862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508393569905441472.post-43406849925129379252011-03-17T06:06:57.057-04:002011-03-17T06:06:57.057-04:00Hi Rachel!
Thanks for having me :)
Congrats on t...Hi Rachel!<br /><br />Thanks for having me :)<br /><br />Congrats on the 50-page read. I use querytracker too, and just got a request to read a partial from an agent. Just read some statistics posted by an agent on twitter yesterday, and like you said - just getting to this point is amazing!<br /><br />Crossing my fingers for you!<br />KikiKiki Howell - Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17505178053235472922noreply@blogger.com