do I give up?

by Lucy Bignall
10th February 2015

Over three months ago, an agent requested meet send her a full manuscript, after I had sent her my first three chapters - and I have heard nothing since. Do I assume she is not interested and pursue other avenues, or send a polite email asking if she has had a chance to read it, or do I sit tight for another three months?

Frustrated from bucks,

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Sit on your hands!!! Better still, go and write something else. If you've only sent your manuscript to her, than by all means submit to a few others. 3 months is nothing, honest. Celebrate the fact that your writing was way good enough to be asked for a full book - something that's a such a rarity, you know you're doing it right! My full submission has been with a publisher 10 months... I know they've got it, they acknowledged.

And good luck! (Not that luck's needed: the writing itself will sell it, but you know what I mean.)

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