Wait A Week

STATUS: A little bit of glass is peeking through. Hey, I do have a desk under all that mail.

What’s playing on the iPod right now? SPIRAL by John Coltrane

Welcome back! I swear. That holiday break is never quite long enough. I could happily go another week of just lounging around, doing some post-holiday shopping sales, and reading just for fun.

I’ve returned from the holidays to a desk that is completely obscured by piles of mail. I’ve been working on that most of today and I’m only halfway through the stacks.

I’ve also returned to see 360 emails in my inbox—and this is my email inbox—not our general query emailbox. Yikes.

Speaking of, we did the holiday autoreply for the whole time we were on break and all queries were deleted. If you want to query us, now is the time to send it—although I would recommend holding off until next week. Invariably on our first day back, we get several hundred queries in one day as everyone resends who got the autoreply. By next week, we should be caught back up.

And speaking of queries, just a little rant to start the new year. I’m thinking that if you sent us a query between Dec. 18 and Jan. 4 and you began your query with the words “I’m an avid reader of your blog,” it was definitely non-effective. After all, if you were an avid reader of the blog, you would have known that we were closed and not accepting queries until January. Something to keep in mind for next year…

Hope y’all had a great holiday. Here’s to a new year of good ranting.

Spiral - John Coltrane