Let’s say you have 3 separate manuscripts and send 1 of them to 12 different agents (4 read same copy). Now let’s say 2 agents each liked separate manuscripts and want to move forward. What would you do as far as transparency and negotiation?

A) You’ve sent two different queries in the SAME genre to two different agents, each of whom wants to see the full. You send each the full manuscript and each offers representation.

It should be a lot like the much more ordinary situation when two agents both offer representation for the same manuscript. You pick one of them and move forward. In this case, it would be good to pick the one who is most likely to be enthusiastic about both projects.

B) You’ve sent two different queries in RADICALLY DIFFERENT genres to two different agents, each of whom wants to see the full. You send each the full manuscript and each offers representation.

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You would say, “O Great Agent A, I’ve also been querying a cutesy YA romantasy, and since you represent only the hardest of hard SF with physics equations provided in the back appendices, I sent this romantasy to Great Agent B, who has also offered representation. Is that okay?” and probably it’s fine and you wind up working with both agents.

You are going to have to explain, “I would like to move forward with You, O Great Agent, but I’ve also sent Other Manuscript to Other Agent, who has also offered representation …” and this whole thing is just getting complicated to even discuss. But you are going to have to discuss this situation.

Agents talk to each other, so it’s not like you can secretly work with Agent B and Agent A won’t find out about it. Of course she’ll find out about it, and then she’ll be irritated because you are working with a second agent for no reason and also because you tried to pretend you weren’t, you dishonest jerk. Therefore, the moment one agent offers representation, you discuss your complicated situation in full.

I’m wondering about attachment and transference with the therapist and the idea of escape and fantasy? How much do you think your strong feelings, constant thoughts, desires to be with your therapist are a way to escape from your present life? I wonder if the transference serves another purpose than to show us our wounds and/or past experiences, but is a present coping strategy for managing what we don’t want to face (even if unconsciously) in the present—-current relationships, life circumstances, etc. Can anyone relate to this concept of escape in relation to their therapy relationship? How does this play out for you?