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I’m currently at 13 requests, which I am very grateful for. Out of those 13, 3 were rejected and 2 of those were partial requests. This morning, I also received another partial request from an agency I would love to work with. As you can tell by the stats, it seems like the agents requesting partials (first 50 pages) are the ones more likely to pass. I wonder why this is so and if it would make more sense for them to request the full instead and stop reading when they decide. I’m definitely noticing a correlation between partials and rejections.

The only thing I can reason with is that they might read the requested material faster if requesting a partial. However, the same could be said for fulls. Has anyone been noticing an uptick in partials? Thank you!

I recently parted ways with my agent who was not established and do not want to fall victim to another agent in the same situation. I’ve heard of group chats where writers can share agent stories “whisper networks” and would like to get involved as I’ve just received a request from an agent that also runs their own imprint that was closed down recently. I don’t want to get scammed again or waste time. Thank you.