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I sent a synopsis and sample chapters to a repuatble agent and within two weeks the agent replied asking that i send the entire mss to them by email. they said that, based on what they'd read in the sample pages, the writing was 'wonderful' and the plot 'original'. i duly emailed the mss. that was five weeks ago and ive not heard anything back. should i contact them or just let it be? is this a good or bad sign? a little unsure where to go from here.

Sammy

If they haven't acknowldeged receipt, I would email and ask them if they got it. When I was picked up by an agent last year (it was an intern at the start), I was asked for the full book after a couple of exchanges - and then I was kept in the loop as to who was reading it, when I could expect to hear - and so on. And they kept their word.

If they have acknowledged receipt, I'd wait a week or so, and then ask. It can't do any harm to enquire, surely. But if they're a busy agency (agent) then they will be reading lots of stuff, so I wouldn't think five weeks too strange. But it's nice to know, so why not ask. If they get snotty about that, I can't imagine they'd be much use anyway.

I was interested to read on your profile who you admire. Are you planning to upload anything? (I'm just curious ... well, nosy, to be honest.)

Joe

Cheers for the prompt reply Joe - they never acknowledged receipt and i never asked for it either - elementary error on my part. i did upload about three chapters a few months ago but, perhaps because of their length, i got few responses so, instead of just clogging up space, i decided to take them off. chekov is my ideal - it's all about the things left unsaid, which is, unfortunately, something i can't achieve at the moment - my writing suffers from the very contemporary disease of rambling (well i suppose dickens had it to, but then, imo, dicken wasn't all that.) am reading pushkin's eugene onegin at the moment, and, boy!, those russians knew how to write tragedies.