Alessandra Ranelli

I've had a wave of requests.

blah, blah, blah, gave him the query letter.

He requested it right away.

And I was shaking when that happened because I really wanted to work with him, but I knew it was a long shot.

And suddenly the wave of requests got bigger.

And then I realized something was happening because I used to not get any responses and I

almost 100% of the agents that I reached out to were responding within hours, suddenly requesting it.

And then I started, I realized what was going on.

I talked to my friend.

And at that time, I had been having such trouble querying, I'd almost given up.

But it seemed like it was happening.

And I had said, I'll send it off to this last wave of agents.

And if nothing happens, that's it, I'm just going to give up on the book.

But everything was totally different this time.

And

I sat down and over like one day, I queried all of the agents on my list because I just had a feeling that somebody was going to offer.

And I felt like you can't really query after you've had an offer.

And now is the time to reach out.

So out of those 30, I think it was 30 queries.

I had about 26 full requests at the end of it.