One down, many to go

Last week I sent off a query about my novel to a prospective agent -- the first one I've tried, someone whose name I got from a client of his -- and today I got back a nice but short email: no dice. So my summertime fantasy of going from no agent to having an agent in exactly one week is over. Now starts the hard work of gathering information about other agents who might be interested, and sending queries to them. I'll try not to be tiresome about it, for I fear the process of sending out queries and getting negative answers has a very good chance of becoming extremely tiresome. How about this: I'll make a scorecard.