[Agent] John Jarrold

At the moment he is answering e-mail from an internet cafe. I wrote to him and he replied about ten days ago saying he would look at my stuff and get back to me ASAP, that's when he mentioned the internet cafe.

Regards,
Scott

He's back online now, but has a two month backlog to catch up with.

spacejock2 said:

He's back online now, but has a two month backlog to catch up with.

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The English have many great traditions, unfortunately glacial service from public utilities is one of those traditions.

It's reported that G.B. Shaw had a two year tussle with his water bill at one point, I'm sure the phone company is no better.

Regards,
Scott

When I decided to attend the 2007 Winchester Writer's Conference, I got so excited when I saw John Jarrold would be attending. Then I realised that I was looking at the 2006 programme - the website hadn't been updated yet

No SF&F specialists at this year's conference - hard enough to find someone who doesn't say "no fantasy" in their listing...

I hardly consider my own work worthy of approaching the likes of JJ, but you have to aim high to hit the target

I'd be curious on how domestic/foreign rights were worked out if a US author had a UK agent. (I noticed that he does have at least one US author). Which is considered domestic and would such a relationship inspire changing it to US/UK rights at 15 and non US/UK rights at 20 (to make domestic mean both domestic for the agent and the author).

I'd be curious to know this as I've considered checking out agents in the UK as well as here in the US.

Robyn said:

I'd be curious to know this as I've considered checking out agents in the UK as well as here in the US.

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I'll try to remember to ask at the conference, assuming I get my two 15-minute meetings with agents. One of them is offering a question-and-answer appointment rather than reading submissions, so he might be a good one to ask this sort of stuff.

I have to point out that there aren't many agents in the UK, and the ones who do SF&F are in a small minority. I shall of course submit to UK agents first, but I won't be surprised if I run out pretty quickly and have to try the US ones. It's either that or join the slush pile at Baen

(Not knocking Baen, BTW, but when they insist on a full and then state they take 9-12 months to reply, it doesn't exactly motivate me to put them at the top of my list!)

My guess is that, as Mr Jarrold is UK-based, then sales to UK publishers are at the 15% domestic rate and sales to US publishers are at the higher foreign rate.
One of my writing group, who sometimes posts here, is a client of his. I'll ask her to drop by or someone could ask him here
http://www.chronicles-network.com/forum/10900-personal-question-s-to-john-jarrold.html

There is a (very short) list of UK agents who specialise in SF/F here
http://www.chronicles-network.com/f...agents-who-specialise-in-science-fiction.html

Of course there are other UK agencies who represent SF/F authors but they may not be looking for any more.

waylander said:

There is a (very short) list of UK agents who specialise in SF/F here
http://www.chronicles-network.com/f...agents-who-specialise-in-science-fiction.html

Of course there are other UK agencies who represent SF/F authors but they may not be looking for any more.

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Thanks for that list. Interesting that PFD are on there - hopefully I'm seeing Simon Trewin at the conference, so I'll have to ask which of his colleagues are open to submissions. They've repped mainstream alt history and also Robert Jordan, but seem to be mostly non-fiction people. Still, I wouldn't balk at sharing an agent with Christopher Priest

Redfox said:

Thanks for that list. Interesting that PFD are on there - hopefully I'm seeing Simon Trewin at the conference, so I'll have to ask which of his colleagues are open to submissions. They've repped mainstream alt history and also Robert Jordan, but seem to be mostly non-fiction people. Still, I wouldn't balk at sharing an agent with Christopher Priest

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Robert Kirby is the SF/F agent at PFD.
MBA should be on the list too

waylander said:

Robert Kirby is the SF/F agent at PFD.

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Yeah, I spotted Christopher Priest and Storm Constantine amongst all the celebs, but then Rosemary Canter reps Robert Jordan, so I wasn't sure. I suspect my work is a bit too genre for Simon himself - he may have signed Sophia Douglass (alt history), but there's a lot more SF&F in mine.

Should one submit the six chapters to him in the body of the email or simply send an e-query?

If you attach the chapters as a word document, you should be fine. I'd make sure it was a word 2000 doc. Not everyone has the newest version of word since it's pretty much rubbish

herdon said:

If you attach the chapters as a word document, you should be fine. I'd make sure it was a word 2000 doc. Not everyone has the newest version of word since it's pretty much rubbish

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Word 2007 is beautiful and wondrous.

Thanks.

Parametric said:

Word 2007 is beautiful and wondrous.

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Ug. A plague on you and your family!

I've actually switched to OpenOffice.

He had my submission since Christmas 2008, and told me two weeks at one point, but I never got a response, even after I told him I had three UK agents wanting meetings with me. I believe he has no assistant and is a one man band.

Wonderlander said:

He had my submission since Christmas 2008, and told me two weeks at one point, but I never got a response, even after I told him I had three UK agents wanting meetings with me. I believe he has no assistant and is a one man band.

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A very-much in demand one man band.
John is a great guy and has done very well for many of his clients, but it may be a long wait to hear from him

waylander said:

A very-much in demand one man band.
John is a great guy and has done very well for many of his clients, but it may be a long wait to hear from him

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Sad but true.

John Jarrold's email?

I am trying to verify John Jarrold's email. On Publishers Marketplace it is listed as [email protected] and on his website it is listed as [email protected]. Anyone know which one is correct?

Thanks

I have, .com in my contacts list from when I submitted to him.

BT Internet is my ISP as well. The domain name is definitely btinternet.com

Has anyone recently recieved a query response from John? Just wondering what kind of response time I'm looking at.