It really is long and boring, this road. Still haven't heard from some agents I queried way way back in September. One agent had my full for two weeks, then bam, a Monday morning comes and so does a rejection. It was hard to tell (it arrived via email) whether it was just a standard form rejection or something personal. It read something like, "Although you have a great project, we can't take on an unpublished writer right now..."

I'm going with form. If it had said something like, "Your protagonist makes too many decisions out of character" or "we didn't like first and third person point of view in the same story" then I might have believed it was personal. Whatever. No is no, and it's time to move on. One agent did ask to see the first 50 pages after reading the five I sent, so that kind of helped.

So, as of today, the stats are: 18 queries out, 3 favorable responses, 4 not yet heard from, 1 rejection of the full, and one full still out there.