First I lost the login details, then I just forgot, then it was Christmas, then I had some issues at work.
But for the very few of you who have hung on in there and actually visited this blog recently, there are some (real, as opposed to made up) green shoots of progress on the Insecticide front.
First: another agent asked to read the rest of Insecticide. This happened on December 19th, so it's been with him for a while now, but I think the last thing an agent would want to do is spend Christmas reading (working), so I'll probably give him an email next week, when it's been about about a month. He's with a firm called Janklow and Nesbit who, rather impressively, have a New York office on Park Avenue, and are quite fiction-based.
Exciting.
But not as exciting as the email I got from the other nameless agent (see two posts back), who actually...deep breath...wants to represent me/Insecticide. He's mainly a non-fiction agent, but he likes the book and his fiction author publishes through Headline, who would be perfect for Insecticide, so I think he's definitely worth a shot. I won't go through all the lovely things he said because I imagine they ought to be taken with a Siberian salt mine of salt, but he was very encouraging, self-deprecating about his own abilities and seemed like a very nice bloke.
We left it with me saying that I'd email agent number two, see what he said, then get back to agent number one.
Very exciting.
In between I got another few standard rejections and a slightly nicer one that said they thought the book had real potential but couldn't quite take it on.
Odd. I happily keep this blog up-to-date when there's nothing positive to report, but when the good times roll I'm nowhere to be found.
I promise to write more often in future.
