So I finally buckled down recently and finished my query letter. I have no idea if it'll be good enough to catch an agent's eye, but I felt pretty good about it. If I get any type of positive response from it I'll probably eventually post it here, but for now, I'm going to wait and see. My sister also gave me some really great feedback on the book after she read it. So far, I have feedback from three people, and I've been going back through the manuscript trying to fix it up and tweak it so it works. I need to put more effort in the synopsis, which I hadn't written yet as of a couple of days ago, but writing it is making me really doubt myself, which I hate.
I sent out the query to two agents so far and I have already received two rejections. I really assumed it would take longer to get responses. I saw somewhere that email queries typically don't even get responses, and I'd honestly rather not get any if they're planning on rejecting. So far, no such luck, so I get to deal with rejections from jobs and NOW rejections from agents. I'm really hating the number 13 right now (aka, the year 2013). I'm gonna get a whole lot more rejections, from jobs AND agents...so I hope it makes me better at handling it....because it has always been a major weakness of mine.
Back to sending out the query, working on the synopsis, and sharpening up the manuscript. I'm going to be unrelenting. I'm determined. This is what I want in life, above anything else ever, so now that I've finally written an entire manuscript, I'm not going to quit that easily. Or at all. One really great part about the entertainment industry, it's so subjective that even books like 50 Shades of Grey can make millions of dollars.
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