Folio Literary Management

Any experiences with agent Jita Fumich?

I'm knee-deep in the agent search and stumbled across the bio for Ms. Jita Fumich at Folio Lit. From her bio, it sounds like she represents the kind of book I'm trying to sell, but I haven't been able to find much info on her from external sources. A search for her name in B,R&BC brings up nothing, she has no personal listing on either the AgentQuery or Publishers Marketplace websites, and a Google search brings up some blog posts she did about digital rights, but nothing else substantial.

Has anyone worked with her, submitted to her, etc.? Any experiences? Thanks!

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Has anyone heard back from Molly Jaffa lately regarding queries, partials, or fulls? I sent a query two weeks ago, and haven't heard anything. Not in a hurry, just wondering

CharleyGirl said:

Has anyone heard back from Molly Jaffa lately regarding queries, partials, or fulls? I sent a query two weeks ago, and haven't heard anything. Not in a hurry, just wondering

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I sent her a query on the 13th of last month and haven't heard back yet, if that helps. I also saw on QT that a few people queried her around the 1st of September and haven't heard back either. Looks like she's just a bit behind. Here's to hoping we hear back soon with good news

Queried Jita Fumich today on a fantasy mms. She sounds like a good match.

Thanks Laura!

Actually yes, good news came yesterday. Michelle asked for my full. She's really busy right now and apologised for the time lag. (A full request is totaly worth a 3 month wait )

I have two other partials out there and a full with another agency, so we'll see. Good luck to everyone with queries and submissions with Folio!

MysteryScribe said:

I sent her a query on the 13th of last month and haven't heard back yet, if that helps. I also saw on QT that a few people queried her around the 1st of September and haven't heard back either. Looks like she's just a bit behind. Here's to hoping we hear back soon with good news

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Thanks MysteryScribe Best of luck to you!

CharleyGirl said:

Has anyone heard back from Molly Jaffa lately regarding queries, partials, or fulls? I sent a query two weeks ago, and haven't heard anything. Not in a hurry, just wondering

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I'm still waiting to hear from her--since June! I had a 15 page critique with her and she requested (rather enthusiastically) the full. (She asked if I could send it to her that day and said, "I couldn't be more excited about this story!) I sent it and haven't heard a peep since. I've still got my fingers crossed tho. Maybe she's just been really busy.

dawnb said:

I'm still waiting to hear from her--since June! I had a 15 page critique with her and she requested (rather enthusiastically) the full. (She asked if I could send it to her that day and said, "I couldn't be more excited about this story!) I sent it and haven't heard a peep since. I've still got my fingers crossed tho. Maybe she's just been really busy.

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Wow, okay~ guess I'm in for a bit of a wait Best of luck with your full!

I just checked Folio's site, and Sarah Sper McLellan has moved on from agenting. Here's what her page said:

"While I have appreciated the opportunity to read all the wonderful queries that authors have sent in, I have decided to move on from Folio to pursue freelance editing work and other opportunities and am no longer open to receiving queries. I have very much enjoyed working with the Folio team and I wish you all the best of luck as you continue on your road to becoming a published author!"

Just thought I'd let people know, and best of luck to Sarah.

dawnb said:

I'm still waiting to hear from her--since June! I had a 15 page critique with her and she requested (rather enthusiastically) the full. (She asked if I could send it to her that day and said, "I couldn't be more excited about this story!) I sent it and haven't heard a peep since. I've still got my fingers crossed tho. Maybe she's just been really busy.

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Hmmm. Methinks a nudge is in order.

Received a request for a full from Ms. Brower on a women's fiction query this morning. Quite excited.

Does anyone know if she's a hands on editor (in the event she were to say....offer rep)?

RoseColoredSkies said:

Received a request for a full from Ms. Brower on a women's fiction query this morning. Quite excited.

Does anyone know if she's a hands on editor (in the event she were to say....offer rep)?

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What great news! I hope she likes it. As to whether she's a hands-on editor type, I have no idea.

Thanks for the well-wishes, Laura. I'm trying to be cautiously optimistic. Course I'm still stalking my inbox like a vulture.

Laura D, have you heard back from Paige Wheeler?

flygal716 said:

Laura D, have you heard back from Paige Wheeler?

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No, I haven't. I sent two follow up emails, but no word.

In case anyone uses querytracker: They have scott hoffman as not accepting unsolicited queries, but on the website he says he's now open. You can query him via Online form on his page.

Has anyone queried Scott Hoffman recently? His submission page says he can take 6-8 weeks to reply, and I'm nearing the end of that window.

Thanks!

I queried Scott last week; I'll post if I get any kind of response.

a. climacus said:

I queried Scott last week; I'll post if I get any kind of response.

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Great, thanks! Hope we both have good luck!

Got my rejection email today.

Oh, well, back to working on my query!

I'm sorry, Stella. Good luck working on your query letter. I've got to go work on mine, too.

Laura Droege said:

I'm sorry, Stella. Good luck working on your query letter. I've got to go work on mine, too.

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Thanks Laura. It's always such a bummer to finally get an email from an agent ... and have it be a form rejection. I've done two versions of my query letter, with 7 agents receiving each, and so far the first version has had two requests and the second version has had only one. Hopefully the new and improved third version (third time's the charm!) will get more requests!

Best Automated Response

a. climacus said:

I queried Scott last week; I'll post if I get any kind of response.

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I just sent him a query and got the best automated reponse acknowledgement ever. It even said if it's better for someone else at agency he will pass it on. Made me love him. Now an ER will sting more. He seems so great.

According to GalleyCat, Celeste Fine is moving from this agency to Sterling Lord Literistic on January 30th.