@davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social
2026-02-21 02:10 UTC
@Impossible_PhD
I've been querying In The Year Of The Half-Arsed Wombat for nearly four years now.
I've queried almost fifty agents, with responses ranging from no response, to a rejection in 2 hours, to a rejection that took 614 days. I thought I might have an advantage when I discovered a friend I'd done amateur theatre with in the 80s was now an agent. Her rejection took 9 days.
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@davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social 2026-02-21 02:16
@Impossible_PhD I've queried half-a-dozen publishers, large and small. Radio silence past the time they say they will respond if interested was the majority of the responses. I was thinking nobody knew how to market a story that's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, if the galaxy was a comic fantasy version of Australia, with the fantastic wildlife narrated by David Attenborough. After reading this, I'm thinking self-publishing is the way I'll be going. 2/2