Limbo

I'm resigned to the reality that I didn't accomplish what I'd intended to over the summer. Well really the summer, plus--it's been almost four months now. Four months I've been waiting to see if there's any agent interest in my recently finished novel. And while I know that summer is a slow time for the publishing industry, I hadn't quite realized just how slow.

I have partials out to three agents, and one agent has the full, and I've not heard from any of them in what seems like ages, and in reality is between four weeks and four months. I have a definitely feeling of limbo. I'm not sure what to do with the book. Should I attempt a rewrite, as suggested by an agent I did hear back from at the beginning of the summer? Should I hang tight and wait to hear from these agents? I tried sending one of them a follow-up email, but I haven't gotten a reply to that either. But what if my pages got caught up in a vicious spam filter and never reached their intended audience? I think maybe I should have typed 'REQUESTED MATERIAL' in the subject line, but there were no instructions given for requested material and very specific instructions given for queries, so I basically hit 'Reply' to the agent's reply to my original query, keeping the subject line pretty much intact. Now I'm not so sure that was a good idea. But I have no way of knowing. At least not at the moment. Not until I get a reply...or don't.

The boys go back to school on Monday. And after a few days of getting things back in order I'm going to have to make some sort of decision. Start working on some revisions or throw myself into the next book. I'm not looking forward to the decision.