Jethro Weyman

Hi Laure. please forgive me if I sound silly aking this question, but should I know you from the Word Cloud?

I feel like ýou’re talking from personal experience here, Ath 😁

Hahahaha! I got that, don’t worry 😀

**** Agreed that making mistakes isn’t the end of the world! Not agreeing that YOU had made mistakes!!!****

Arg.

Mosquito? Nope.
I got up from watching TV last night to help a bug about the size of this asterix [*] off my lap and outside.
I think, why kill it when it would take, like, 5 seconds of my time to save its life? I mean, just coz he’s little an’ all.
Don’t worry though, in other ways I can be proper horrible. … And sometimes, there are just…[Read more]

Agreed.

Oops! But the good thing is that making mistakes isn’t the end of the world – which you have proved! And I’ve had plenty of mistakes along the way too…

Hi Laure!

Yes, good to mention that you’re submitting to other agents, and to note any interest shown to nudge them along (generally. Just not specifically).

@Skylark – I meant naming specifically! All my cover letters said “the full MS is currently with Sarah Manning”. [face palm]
No agent commented on it (even during my one-to-ones at York), but they probably were a bit like… “I didn’t really want to know that”.

Yes, agree with that Philippa. I’ve not got anything else to add yet, except to agree with comments already made – and thank you for setting this up!

Edit: and like the edit button!

Really interesting reading, Richard. The name was familiar but I haven’t read anything by him. It’ unusal for me not to have at least sampled something by a historic fantasy writer. I can see what you mean about his writing being a bit Marmite. It was making me wince and laugh at the same time.

Everything Philippa said! Though re the faux pas, do you mean in terms of naming the agent specifically or not saying that it’s being read at all? Because I’ve always been told it’s good to let other agents know that you’re sending it to other people, that other people are reading the full etc. and this is what I did when more than one person was…[Read more]