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Thank you for commenting, feel positive and have a good sense of where to go with this – thank you!

Oh, and don’t withdraw other subs till you have signed the contract with the agent (in case it falls through)

Oh – and it’s worth emailing the other agents with ‘Offer of Representation’ in the subject line. This will make sure they pick up your email and act on it.

This post has guidance on all kinds of follow-up emails that you might have to send…

http://www.writingforchildrenandteens.com/submissions/status-updates-when-and-how-to-do-it/

Picking up on Pinkbelts question a few comments back (yes, what happened on this thread??) – what to say to other agents if you get an offer of representation…

The courteous thing to do is to contact those other agents and let them know – before you accept – that you’ve had an offer. Those agents should then hurry up and get back to you,…[Read more]

This is basically what I write about. 🙂 Awesome.

You’re welcome! It’s a nice way for me to bridge my two “identities” (writer and psychologist) xx

Oh I love what KIt de Waal is doing – she is being so incredibly supportive and generous setting up scholarships and all that. One admirable lady. *swoons* I’d not really kept track of Kerry Hudson, but I’ll check her out.

That’s true re lots of them having MAs, I guess it hadn’t really registered. I’d never think anyone has become an agent…[Read more]

Remember “Memories” in the critique section? Now it’s “Felicity’s First” at Across The Margin: http://acrossthemargin.com/felicitys-first/

And Sorrow Point is on my website:
http://www.therunnerstone.com/

Belated congratulations, Janette, super job.

Contentwise it is all good and fine. Oh – “Black Shug, black shug” – that’s really creepy, like a chant. And there are some great lines and expressions in here. Stylistically, as it is now, I would want a little more editing to happen before I would be ready to read on, but that may be a matter of personal taste. The tense seems to change a little…[Read more]

Yay! Well done, John. I did really find this horrible (in a good way). The only thing that jumped out at me (in a bad way) was the use of “seductive” to describe her smile, but that had gone anyway by the second edit.

Stella