I'm curious how many of you have never heard back on a full submission? Do you nudge them or just write it off?

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@wendyparciak i've always heard back on fulls, but a few of them took 2ish years only to get form rejections
@VRicciThode Wow, that's a long time!
@wendyparciak that was during the height of the pandemic, when response times were at their worst. i quit querying about a year ago, so i don't know if it's actually improved, but i've heard it's at least a little better, though i do know one author who got ghosted on a full
@VRicciThode you can increase that total to two, as I gave up on one full after waiting more than a year!
@wendyparciak the author in question nudged after a year but didn't hear anything. i think it's been over 2 years now for them. the industry is really brutal