I’ve posted about this before. But it bears repeating. E-mails get lost in cyberspace, editors forget, things get busy, and your submission may be deleted without being looked at. It happens. Follow-up. Follow-up on queries. Follow-up on Letters of Introduction. Follow-up on any correspondence that needed a response and didn’t get one.
I usually follow-up no more than once, but I do know of writers who follow-up on their follow-ups as well. For me personally, that’s pushing it a bit, since I tend to assume that if the editor was interested, a query and a follow-up would have gotten a response. However, it has known to work. So it’s a personal choice.
Today, look over the work you’ve been sending out over the past one month. Is there anything you should be following up on? Do it.
(And with that, we come to the end of the Month of Marketing. Any successes? Any more tips? Share in the comments.)
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