Literary agent time table

[WaylonJennings]

About three weeks ago, I emailed an agent with some book ideas and he responded fairly quickly - same afternoon - and said he'd look them over and get back with me.

Should I email him back to check in? Assume that he wasn't interested and move onto another agency? Wait patiently?

Not sure what the proper course of action is.

 

[In Exile]

E-mail him back and ask that if he has any interest he should contact you - but if he was hot on the idea, he probably already would have contacted you.

 

[jgmacg]

I'll ditto IE, except to add that it's holiday time, so the always slow publishing business runs even s l o w e r. The holiday, though, provides plausible cover for you to email him and say "Hey, before we're all swept away in a tsunami of eggnog and peppermint, I thought I'd check in...."