I severely underestimated the number of queries I sent out for my current novel. I thought I'd sent about thirty. Apparently one night in a fit of frustration I cast caution to the wind and sent a bunch. I vaguely remember doing that.
Today I opened my Excel sheet to check my outstanding queries. There are fifty-two. Fifty-two.
Since I haven't received responses from those fifty-two agents, I'm going to go ahead and assume I never will. Nice business practice, by the way. I'm okay with those who clearly state on their site, "if you don't hear from us within _____, consider it a no." What is harder to comprehend is the difficulty some agencies seem to have creating a form letter they can simply shoot off to rejected queriers.
Nevertheless, I still remain closed to querying, except for three publishers I took a chance on. These houses don't require an agent, so I had nothing to lose.
My plan remains to self-publish in about a month, since I'm not expecting any positive responses based on past experience.
I frankly will be thrilled to close this chapter.
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