Just wanted to share my experience (so far!) with the Book Bureau for anyone thinking of querying...
I queried Geraldine back on May 6th. She responded almost immediately asking for me to send her ten chapters in hard copy and saying she was looking forward to reading it. I duly sent this to her and she emailed on May 11th to confirm receipt. So I started waiting. And waiting!
Eventually, on 16th July I sent a very polite status request email, in which I mentioned I had been doing some rewriting to the end of the novel and as such attaching a new plot synopsis which took this slightly rejigged ending into account. I still haven't received a reply to this...over a month later
Book Bureau were the first agency I queried because, like me, they are based in Ireland and Ger gets good reviews as a friendly and professional agent. I've heard from a lot of people who have had responses to their partials within a couple of days but I've been waiting 3 months now so I'm assuming at this stage it's an R.
But it would have been nice to have been told this instead of left to figure it out for myself. And it would have been nice to have even a one line reply to my status update query a month ago. So not a *very* positive experience for me at this point...