«I revised my manuscript based on the thoughtful critique I received at the conference, and I sent out
my requested full manuscripts and queries a week later.
You hope that your query will make a good enough impression and that an agent will be intrigued and
request the full manuscript!
with Agent Paula Munier and
she requested the full manuscript.
Both of these agents
requested my full manuscript.
Two days later, Brooks and another agent I met at the conference mixer responded,
requesting my full manuscript.
Full manuscripts: If we have
requested your full manuscript and you have uploaded it to our submission database, a response can take up to two months.
* The final editor judge
requested the full manuscript ** The final agent / editor judge requested a partial or full manuscript + The final editor judge requested other manuscripts from this author
Consideration from a literary agent or publisher almost always involves a query letter, and in many cases they'll want to see a synopsis and sample pages before
requesting a full manuscript.
Full manuscripts — If Paul has
requested a full manuscript, these are often read out of date order.
A few times per year
I request a full manuscript as a follow - up to the proposal we received.
I've gotten many companies whose official policy is no unsolicited submissions to read my manuscripts by submitting a query letter to them and having
them request the full manuscript.
1 literary agent
requested my full manuscript.
Read her post for a delightful, if maddening, account of how she sent out only two queries to literary agents, how
each requested a full manuscript, and how each gave -LSB-...]
After I helped her rewrite her query letter, she approached the same agent, a fourth time, and
he requested the full manuscript.
It's essentially a sales letter that attempts to persuade an editor or agent to
request a full manuscript or proposal.
Though I hadn't thought anything wrong with the novel when that same agent
requested the full manuscript after I won a three - line - pitch contest, I knew as as soon as I got her (very polite) rejection that something WAS wrong.
Not exact matches
The
manuscript is available, in part or
full, upon
request.
«After Mark helped me revise my book query I got five
requests to read my
full manuscript.
Maybe you get
requests for
full manuscripts, but can't seem to close the contract.
Some authors (who've gotten NO positive responses from literary agents and / or hundreds of rejections) have written new Query Letters that Worked... resulting in
full manuscript requests, representation offers from top literary agencies, and book deals with major publishers.
It got me a
request for a
full manuscript four hours (true story) after I sent the revised query!
This synopsathon began with an agent
request for a
full manuscript and synopsis.
with half the agents
requesting to read my
full manuscript and the other half partials.
Feedback from the judges was invaluable in sharpening the opening pages, and a number of
requests from editors for the
full manuscript convinced me that it was finally time to set this novel loose.
I'm approaching four years of writing
full time, and while I've had some successes — won two contests, had a
request for a
full manuscript, indie published two short stories, written a lot — I haven't had a «big» win.
Please allow several weeks for query reply, more if a partial or
full manuscript is
requested.
When an agent or editor
requests your partial or
full manuscript, it's nerve wracking to wait and wonder, day after day, if they're reading it and whether they like it.
This is the part that makes your friend ask to read it, the agent to
request a
full or partial
manuscript, and the customer to flip to page one.
Please do not send us a
full manuscript unless it is
requested.
Pat: When you like what you hear during a conference pitch session, what would trigger a
request for the
full manuscript?
If the literary agent found your query letter and sample content convincing enough, he or she will
request for a copy of the
full manuscript.
Under Grace's tutelage, I have won or finaled in several prestigious writing contests, which resulted in agent and editor
requests for my
full manuscript.
She received thirteen
full and partial
requests for her
manuscript throughout February.
If an agent
requests a partial or
full manuscript from you, they will expect you to follow up at some point if they haven't gotten back to you in a timely fashion.
This should be concise yet detailed (a lot of times the age, profession, description of the MC is included), and intriguing, so as to «hook» the agent into
requesting to see a partial or
full manuscript.
So far, I've sent out 39 queries, received 2
requests for a
full manuscript, 1
request for a partial, and 9 rejections, mostly very kind, non-form letter responses.
If you got
requests for the
full manuscript, great, keep querying.
, and received a
request for a
full manuscript from an editor at a publishing house.
If I received a
request for a
full manuscript before receiving a rejection, I make sure to indicate that.
You might wait until you are further in the process and have
requests for a
full manuscript.
Sixteen years ago I received a
request for a
full manuscript from UK literary agent Laetitia Rutherford.
by Anne R. Allen Sometime during your query process, you'll get a
request for a partial or
full manuscript (yay!)
And maybe you'll even get some good reviews, which are a better high than even a
request for a
full manuscript.