It's a grey area, really. 130K is long enough to cause some agents to do a form rejection without even looking at the work, and short enough for others to consider it still worth looking at the rest of the package, though they may consider it a strike against. I can probably, with minimal research, name names on both sides of that line. But the trend is getting to shorter. That "maybe, maybe not" number might have been as high as 150K as little as five years ago, and definitely was at least that high ten years ago.

However, what i should have said was, Other than any possible reduction in length, I cannot see a critique leading to revisions that would change an agent's mind. Remove that one factor, and it's as close at it gets.


On another matter, I really should call you sometime.