Queried Brooks Sherman with YA Post-Apocalyptic on 10/16/14. No response and website says to re-submit if you don't hear, so I did on 1/29/15. Received form R on 1/29/15.
Geez, I am confused.
I queried Gemma Cooper after reading this on her Bent Agency bio page: "For non-fiction, I'm interested in history and science, but want very accessible books with an obvious hook."
Then I get this auto-reply email from her saying she got the submission, but in it she warns, "I am a children's literary agent, so do not represent adult genres for adult fiction or adult non-fiction. Queries for all adult manuscripts will be deleted unanswered."
So which is it, Gemma? You can't have it both ways.
Sounds pretty definitive that she doesn't want history/science nonfiction when she says she does want history/science nonfiction.
Agents, I tell ya. (At this point the tiny little Self-Publishing Obi-Wan on my shoulder is saying, "See? This is not the droid you're looking for... trust in the Self Publishing force, Luke,....")
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UPDATE: Just got an email from Gemma. She apologized for the confusion on the website. Basically, I scan agent bios and try to carefully ascertain if they do serious nonfiction, as in history. Hers mentioned science, history, nonfiction. So I queried. But then I went back to her site and noticed that buried in the fine print in a left-hand column, it says no nonfiction and she's totally childrens-books-only. She definitely needs to clean that up for poor authors. Anyway, confusion clarified, and I've taken her off my list (and me hers
Same on my computer. Just a blank white page.Anyone else having problems getting to their website? Neither my phone or computer will pull up the page today.
I take it John Bowers have left the agency now? Had him on my query list from the March 2017 new agent alert but his Twitter bio has changed and he's disappeared from the agency site. His Twitter page still has pinned tweets about clients though, and his last tweets before disappearing were about #PitMad.
Per QT he's with Sanford J. Greenburger now.