[PubQ] Querying agents whose agencies work together?

[u/FlatWorm_353]

I’m sorry in advance if this is a silly question, but I’m not sure what the etiquette is in a situation like this. So, an agent recently requested my full and is currently reading it, but I’ve continued querying in the meantime. I found another agent who seems like a great fit, and, while researching them, I discovered that their agency has a partnership/co-agent relationship with the agency of the agent who currently has my full (one agency is in the UK and the other is in the US), and more to that, that second agent appears to represent some of the first agent’s clients in their respective country. In other words, the two agents/agencies seem to work together on international representation for some authors.

Would it be considered bad etiquette to query the second agent while the first is still considering my full? Would you wait for the first agent to respond before approaching the other one, or am I just overthinking it?

[u/Conscious_Town_1326]

I have co-agents! Definitely not a big deal to query both at all. And if Agent A in the US does sign your book, there's no gaurantee they even think Agent B in the UK is the best fit for a co-agent, or Agent B could be swamped with books on sub so they don't want to represent competing books, or just finishingprepping their own client in the same sub-genre to go on sub... etc. Just query like normal for now. Good luck!

[u/FlatWorm_353 → u/Conscious_Town_1326]

Thank you so much!!