[Agency] The Blair Partnership

Coming up for 8 weeks and heard nowt on a partial....

8 weeks on a full and no response to a nudge email (about a week ago). Oh, well. Another one bites the dust, eh?

Could be, Kado, could be. Or they could be still up to their oxters in the JK Rowling palaver. Hard to say if there's no response.....


gggrrrr!!!!!!

Or they could be on holiday, like you know, with their families.

Update: I received an email today from Liz apologising for the silence and explaining that my ms is in the process of being looked at. Really polite and reassuring email.

Now I really am biting my fingernails! Oh, the agony!

Edit: You know what? I've already made up my mind that if they reject me I absolutely refuse to mope about it. I'm actually chuffed that I got their attention at all. I didn't even think I get past the initial query stage, so to have them even consider my ms is reason to be pleased. It means I might be doing something right and I just have to keep at it.

waylander said:

Or they could be on holiday, like you know, with their families.

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This is quite likely. Or short-staffed. Between the Olympics and everything else, probably for the wiser. When I was in London this time last year, it was insanely busy with people on holiday. Then I escaped to Germany where it was slightly quieter. I'm interested in hearing how the rest of your process goes with TBP because they are on my short-list.

I have a 3 week exclusive that is up tomorrow. Fingers crossed for you Kado, positive they still have it!

waylander said:

Or they could be on holiday, like you know, with their families.

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you mean they have real lives? Right, all holidays are cancelled.

except mine.

Nice one Kado! The best of British to you, I've got my paws crossed for ya!

I'm in the same boat, and Kado, I feel the same as you. They've had my full since 7/4 and they are my absolute first pick (which makes it extra nail-bitey!) But...it will be what it is, and yes, we must be doing something right, right? Zoe seems so sweet. They all seem extremely cool, actually.

Brindle MacWuff said:

Coming up for 8 weeks and heard nowt on a partial....

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Well, that beats me. It's been only three weeks for me.

Thanks for the support guys. Best of luck to us all!

Update:

Aaaaaand...it's an R&R.

The feedback was polite and concise. They were kind enough to say what worked and what they liked, and honest enough to say what didn't work and what needed changing.

So, the stats: 4 weeks till request of full, 4 weeks of waiting in the queue, 1 week for them to read the full and get back to me. Not bad.

Now I've got to get to work on revising. Although it's disappointing I wasn't snapped up Stephenie Meyer style, on the other hand, I'm really pleased to have gotten honest, expert feedback, and I was chuffed with the things they mentioned they liked.

Anyway, onwards and upwards!

Kado

That's awesome though! Rand R is much better than just plain R. congrats. Who have you been in contact with at TBP, if i may?

Zoe was my initial contact and then Liz. Both really lovely. And thanks!

Thank you. I'm still waiting and growing ever more nervous.

Kado,

That is great news surely? When you say R and R they said they would like you to resub? Are you going to?

Thanks Project Deadlight. Yes, they said they would like me to re-submit and I'm definitely going to do that. I plan to hold off querying any more agents for the time being as I just want to concentrate on revising the ms and knocking it into better shape.

Congrats of the revise and resubmit, Kado! Best of luck with your changes.

I sent a query on July 1st and got a form rejection back July 23rd. Considering they're such a popular agency they've got quite a good, quick submission system going on.

Good luck Kado!

And commiserations, EMaree...... I'm still waiting on a rejection from my partial, heh heh!

No worries, rejections are all part of the process. Best of luck with the partial, Brindle MacWuff -- it's a huge achievement just to get a partial request from such a prestigious agency!

Good luck Kado and Brindle!

I sent Zoe a chapter breakdown about 5 weeks ago, which she requested. Seven pages. She didn't confirm receipt, like some agents do. I was just wondering if any of you had any experience with response time on a chapter breakdown?

Thanks SheilaJG!

I haven't got a scooby on the response time for a chapter breakdown, I'm afraid. I'm over eight weeks on a partial, but it's holiday time and all that jazz.....

Had a very nice "in process but bare with us" email on my full+chapter breakdown.