Last time I sent out queries for SP (I’m dying to reveal the title but it’s so luscious I just can’t have it getting out until it’s been signed) the prospective agents couldn’t send their rejections fast enough. I would mail a letter to New York City on a Tuesday and get my SASE back by that Saturday.  

This time around, I just don’t know what to make of it. Either the mail’s slow or like me, everyone waited until January to send their queries and now all the literary agencies in New York City are buried beneath a heap of courteous pleas for representation.