: What are typical response rates to non-fiction queries? I've begun sending out queries to agents for my recently completed non-fiction manuscript. A decade ago, I sent out queries frequently,

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I don't know, I am not sure with the changes Amazon and others have introduced that anyone is even tracking it scientificly. Here is a nice article on "Agents" www.huffingtonpost.com/heather-hummel/why-agents-reject-96-of-a_b_4247045.html and one on Publishers accepting manuscripts without an agent publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2014/03/6-publishers-accepting-unsolicited.html I don't go at it that way. "I don't want or need permission", it's my art, so I want to sell it. From all that I have read online, the response rate is highest in romantic fiction aka dime novels. My audience is worldwide, yet largest market segment by pages read is in India, most gross sales revenue in US and UK, male 35-55 speaking english, which matches "STEM" stats of the human population at present. My books are non-fiction technical education aka HOWTO use API's. I have been learning and growing my publishing business every since I started "writing" in 2013. Here is my journey blog.grigsbyconsultingllc.com/grigsby-consulting-llc-presents-story-of-the-developer-labs-integration-cookbooks/ May I be so bold as to suggest you look at a couple of my favorite self-publishing how-to sites and "get noticed" by the sales and understanding your "audience" and let the publisher approach you.
DaveC at Kindlepreneur kindlepreneur.com/book-marketing-101/ MarkD at SPF selfpublishingformula.com/
GuyK at APE apethebook.com/

If you want, take a look at my profile links to my consulting and book site, I clearly make more per hour at present doing consulting, yet my content sales are making progress towards replacing my active income with passive.

Best of luck no matter which way you go.

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