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Wrote to fifteen agents today: two with synopsis and first chapter and thirteen with just a synopsis.
I have a plan to stagger submissions: those who require more than one chapter will be sent a sample in two weeks. Thus if I have any positive feedback I won't be jumping on the first one as they will all hopefully coming back to me within a window of a month or so. Best laid plans...
We shall have a rejection count. Watch this space.
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Wow, dreams are shattered quickly these days.
Here's the rejection count
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Wow, dreams are shattered quickly these days.
Here's the rejection count
IIII
I was going to reply to your original post about your chances of positive replies, but I didn't want to dash your hopes. Now that it's been done, however, I'll say that you'll be lucky if you get replies to 50% of your letters, and extremely lucky if you get one positive response. That's not necessarily a reflection of your writing standard, but more than likely a reflection of their being no gaps in the market for what you are writing. For instance, if you were writing a Harry Potter type piece, your chances would be zero as the market is now overflowing with that type of material.
It's a rough world this writing business, and ironically, I've discovered that the more I learn about it in terms of the craft and the business of selling the finished product, the harder I find the actual task of writing.
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Yeah, I know. That's another reason for the staggered approach: I can dream a little longer.
As for the market I haven't done the old find a gap thing, I've just written what I wanted to write. Probably a mistake. I've no idea if there's a saturation of sci-fi rom-coms but if there is you're right and I'm buggered.
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Yeah, I know. That's another reason for the staggered approach: I can dream a little longer.
As for the market I haven't done the old find a gap thing, I've just written what I wanted to write. Probably a mistake. I've no idea if there's a saturation of sci-fi rom-coms but if there is you're right and I'm buggered.
It's a strange situation. I didn't mean research the market, find a gap, and then write for that. Doing that will always lead to failure because by the time you've done it, many other authors will have beaten you to it. The trick is to write what you're passionate about regardless of market because tastes in novels and films, like fashion, go round in circles. Besides, if you write for the gap in the market and it's outside of what you're passionate about, it will show up in your writing and nobody will entertain it.
The key (at least this is what I tell myself) is persistence. If you complete enough work, and it's good enough for publication, the gap in the market for your work will come around eventually.
Stephen King never gave up on the genre he was passionate about even when various publishers told him not to bother because they couldn't sell horror novels. Neither did J. K. Rowling when she was told that novels for kids don't sell well. Patience and persistence. 
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Besides, if you write for the gap in the market and it's outside of what you're passionate about, it will show up in your writing
Speaking of Jeffrey Archer, he's been all over the television this past week, hasn't he 
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