THIS.

Even for my requested fulls, I only offer rep on about 5%. A full request, most of the time, ends in disappointment https://twitter.com/kingmanwrites/status/1291534345077813250

Honestly, one big reason for all the secrecy involving requests and rejection is that there’s so MUCH rejection editors and agents would be emotionally overwhelmed if they had to deal with the fallout of each pass

I reject 100s of people each month. Sometimes they’re people I know and like—I just don’t know it’s a manuscript I can sell. Seeing them post “I got a full request from my dream agent!” triples the emotional energy of reading the MS. I can’t let that influence my decision

Also, if I have your full and I see you tweet weeks later “request from a dream agent!” I’ll be like “wait...am I not their dream agent?” And that isn’t a good start for an agent-author relationship

Also, over-sharing about querying signals you might also over-share on submission, when there’s actual important financial reasons to be quiet

The time to celebrate publicly is when a thing becomes certain—when you sign with an agent, when you announce a deal. Keep it in the DMs until it’s sure

It’s a very fine thing to celebrate a success, but it’s really socially awkward for agents to read an author’s tweets and feel like they’re being singled out in some way. Places like QueryTracker exist so writers can discuss querying together