Don't you hate it when....?

... you send someone a carefully worded, thoughtful email, that requires an answer, an insight into their position on something and you wait, and you wonder what they think - and there's no reply.   And you can't tell whether the no reply is their reply, or whether they actually saw the email, or indeed anything about what they are thinking about something that is important to you.  

Then you are unable to send them a reminder, a request, in case you are seen as pestering them, but the sad fact is, sooner or later, these questions must be answered - so somehow I have to find out, or perhaps I can wait until a publisher makes an offer for the book and then ask everyone to sign a disclaimer...  Think I ought to check defamation on the Society of Author's site...