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Literary Agents Ghosted, Oh My!
Special guest hosts Bart and Jimmy (if you are a literary agent: ignore any references to Pat and James) explore recent reporting by Jane Friedman that literary agents are feeling upset that acquisitions editors are taking too long to reply to submissions, if at all.
In fact, some agents are proposing a mandatory three week turnaround time for submissions. Yep, the same people who tell writers that if they don’t hear back in SIX weeks, that’s a rejection, feel waiting too long or getting ghosted is beyond the pale. If we all hate submitting into a void, what can we do?
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