After a month, I thought Lucy Carson had erased my query letter. Because I have my shit together (I'm OCD), I keep a linear log of all my submissions (both to agents, literary journals + CW jobs), with color coding based on the final results of each submission. Black = manuscript still in play. Orange = manuscript being reviewed (useful only for submishmash/journals with online submission manager). Light grey = rejection (because it's the easiest on the eyes). Green = acceptance. Blue = withdrawn. Red = who who the fuck knows what happened? The point being, after a week, I'd already changed my query status for Lucy Carson from black to red because I hadn't heard a thing. Usually, when agents don't respond within a week, they don't respond at all. That's been my experience 99.999% of the time. But today: Jackson, meet exception. Exception, Jackson.
Today I got a very gracious response today from Lucy Carson requesting the entire novel. She also thanked me for my kind words for one of her clients, Ruth Ozeki, who I read at USC + mentioned in my query letter. Some of the clients at The Friedrich Agency include: The Pulitzer prize-winning Jane Smiley, Esmeralda Santiago, Ruth Ozeki, Carol Muske-Dukes (a USC poet, no less) + Elena Gorokhova. Not bad at all. But to put things in perspective, statistically speaking, the number of literary fiction writers + male writers at this agency is slim. So, I'm not going to delude myself into expecting miracles here. But, I def appreciate the full manuscript request. Now let's see if it's a good fit for her. If not, I'm certainly flattered nevertheless that a tech-savvy agent like LC showed interest in my novel.
Today I got a very gracious response today from Lucy Carson requesting the entire novel. She also thanked me for my kind words for one of her clients, Ruth Ozeki, who I read at USC + mentioned in my query letter. Some of the clients at The Friedrich Agency include: The Pulitzer prize-winning Jane Smiley, Esmeralda Santiago, Ruth Ozeki, Carol Muske-Dukes (a USC poet, no less) + Elena Gorokhova. Not bad at all. But to put things in perspective, statistically speaking, the number of literary fiction writers + male writers at this agency is slim. So, I'm not going to delude myself into expecting miracles here. But, I def appreciate the full manuscript request. Now let's see if it's a good fit for her. If not, I'm certainly flattered nevertheless that a tech-savvy agent like LC showed interest in my novel.