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Right Here Right Now - Jesus Jones

Earlier this week I received an offer of representation by an agent.

Gosh, it feels nice to say that after all these years. I'm not going to give out a lot of details just yet because I haven't accepted and here's why:

I'm meeting Agent 1 at the conference for lunch on Friday where I will ask some poignant questions and see what she has to say. I will not make a decision because of Agents 2, 3, and 4. I'm pitching to Agent 2 at the conference on Saturday, and it's likely she'll be interested to know I have an offer on the table. Whether she is or is not, I had two requested partials out there, so etiquette demanded I notify Agents 3 and 4 that the project in which they were interested now has another agent interested enough to represent me.

Agent 3 emailed me this morning to say she'd just started reading the partial and "really liked it so far" and went on to ask if I hadn't already made a decision, would I mind waiting until Monday. I said that was fine-and it is. I can be patient now. Well, a few minutes later she emailed back and requested the full, so there's that. I haven't heard yet from Agent 4, but if I do will grant the same consideration.

Ultimately whether I have only one agent or as many as four vying for the chance to represent MY work, it feels awfully good to have reached this particular pinnacle in the mountainous range of the quest for publication.

I'll let you all know what happens, of course.