[Agency] Dystel, Goderich & Bourret, LLC (formerly Dystel & Goderich Lit. Mgmt.)

skippingstone said:

Yes, why have just one rejection, when you can have two! .

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ahahaha my thoughts exactly!

Thanks for the feedback

Sage said:

A suggestion if you are torn between Jim and Michael. Jim seems to respond very quickly (whereas it's been a month since I queried Michael with no response)

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Thank you! I took your advice and queried Jim on Monday night, and got a full request the next day!

Go AuntB, very cool.

Yeah, you go AuntB!

Congrats AuntB!

Form R from Jim. Queried on 1/30/10.

I know I shouldn't be impatient but....anyone know how long it usually takes Jim to read a full?

Okay I'm going now

Roly said:

I know I shouldn't be impatient but....anyone know how long it usually takes Jim to read a full?

Okay I'm going now

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Got a somewhat personalized r on my full today.... So for me.... A day and a half?

Huh? I uh...got a request for the full on Monday Feb 1st and no response. I didn't know he was that fast.

Should...I be worried or should I just be patient? I know three months is the norm, but I'm actually a little scared he didn't get it.

You see, I didn't actually reply his email for the full request. I wrote a new email and put: requested material in the subject line. I included the original query in the subject body of course, and wrote a little note thanking him for his request, but should I have replied his email itself?

...help?

JJPie said:

Found an interview of Jim McCarthy of my RWA magazine the RWR. For everyone's information, Jim's response time on queries, partials, and fulls is 2-4 weeks, with a faster response time when communicating by e-mail.

Hope this is helpful!

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Oh okay I just read this upthread.

So I guess I'll follow up sometime in March.

*sigh* the wait is the hardest part

*sigh* Rejection. Form no less ;_;

Sorry about the R Roly

Sorry Roly. : (

It's been a month for my query/1st chapter to Miriam. Should I nudge or sit tight?

Hey everyone! I'm a new member. I was wondering if I could get some advice from people who have e-queried Jim McCarthy before.

The submission requirements on D&G's website say that snail mail should have the query letter, a synopsis, and a chapter, but the instructions for email queries are very vague. It looks as though some people on this thread have submitted a synopsis and a sample chapter with their e-query, but on agentquery.com it says to only submit the query letter itself via email. http://www.agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=80

Do you know what I should include in my e-query and what should be in an attachment vs. the body of the email?

Thank you so much to anyone who answers!

Chumplet said:

It's been a month for my query/1st chapter to Miriam. Should I nudge or sit tight?

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A month isn't a lot of time. Hang in there.

After reading their guidelines several times, I snail-queried Ms. Dystel 2/12 and so far, haven't heard. Then I read this thread about fast email responses and wish I'd emailed them. Darn.

I just signed with Jane Dystel yesterday and am about bustin' with shock, awe, and more than a little glee. The process involved an email query, a request an hour later from her for a proposal and a sample, then three days later an email back from her with an invitation to phone her and discuss representation. We talked for about a half hour - I was doing research so was in my car, parked, on my cell -- and she was bright, energetic, encouraging and patient. I accepted the next day and have great hopes for working with her.

congrats Mardi, that's fantastic news!!!!

OMG, Mardi, that's wonderful! Excuse me while I wipe the drool.

Wow, Mardi, that was fast! Congratulations!

I thought it was fast, too. I'm horrible at waiting, so it was a blessing. Now the real work begins: crafting the proposal from the excerpt she liked. Love to research and write books; proposal writing? Not so much.

So your proposal was for a non-fiction?

I have two wip that are both non-fiction. A true crime book for which I sent her a finished proposal, and a memoir excerpt which won a literary contest but for which I didn't have a proposal. She expressed interest in both, and now I'm going to have to write a proposal for the memoir, which I have never done before. Any thoughts? Or perhaps that question is not for this thread? Memoir proposals seem to be a hybrid animal.