If that title doesn't get attention, I don't know what will.
Anyway. I checked my e-mail when I got home from school and saw another rejection response to an "Infinity" query. This one I didn't expect, because the agent was kind of a pie-in-the-sky agent hope. I found out about her when Bomani told me about a book he'd read that was thematically similar to "Infinity," and together we tag-teamed Googling up the agent who sold it. Turned out she's a vice president in a pretty high-profile agency, and in terms of young adult/middle grade fiction, she's considered a fairly serious player -- again, at least according to the research I did about her before submitting.
Her submission guidelines said if you hadn't heard back from her in a week, she wasn't interested in a project. No biggie, this is standard. I submitted, two and a half weeks passed, and I had written her off.
Then today:
Thank you for thinking of me for Following Infinity, and I appreciate your kind words about (other book title that got me to submit to her).
Unfortunately, my list is quite full at the moment, and the reality is that I am totally swamped. Good luck with your manuscript. Following Infinity certainly does sound like a compelling read.
Okay, as I've stated before, any response from an agent that is not a form letter rejection is encouraging. So comments this positive coming from someone who has so many things to work on and is likely receiving 200-300 query letters daily is golden. She took the time to write even just a couple of encouraging sentences out of a day like that when she didn't need to.
Makes me feel it's really going to be an issue of when instead of if.
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