[Agency] Pinder Lane & Garon-Brooke Associates

I have an excellent gut feeling about Bob Thixton, HapiSofi, and I don't believe he had any intent but to gauge the salability of my mss. He said quite clearly that he was sending it out to one editor he was well-acquainted with for some feedback. A feeler for market viability, perhaps?

An agent may like a writer's mss, but not be able to sell it to a publishing house, no matter how deeply the story resounds with the lit agent (Veritas used that as a means to reject the same mss a month prior to PLGB's read). My primary concern was a lack of response from Bob to my follow-up email. Giving this the benefit of the doubt, maybe he's out of town, maybe his spam filter killed my email, who knows? And he seems to have some integrity on this site.

In regards to this situation, I take responsibility for not asking how long the process would require. I just wanted to find out if anyone else had a similar experience (with PLGB or any other agent).

Thanks for everyone's input, much appreciated!

-Maddie

I whole-heartedly believe Thixton is on the up-and-up. As far as Kelly Mortimer, she is a well established lit agent. Her sales record is impressive. She also requested the first 3 chapters of one of my novels. I'm waiting to hear from her.

Good luck, Maddie. Keep faith.

Donnette Smith
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So, I take it that the original literary agency (Pinder Lane & Garon-Brooke Associates, Ltd.) is now gone? When I went looking today, I just found Pinder Lane Productions - with Robert Thixton as one of the owners.

Agents come and agents go, eh?

...Yep. Kelly Mortimer now has her own agency, so I guess that confirms it.

AlterEgox5 said:

So, I take it that the original literary agency (Pinder Lane & Garon-Brooke Associates, Ltd.) is now gone? When I went looking today, I just found Pinder Lane Productions - with Robert Thixton as one of the owners.

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They still have Pinder-Lane & Garon-Brooke Associates as an affiliated company handling the literary side. Bob currently has a partial of my most recent mss (2/28/11). Best to query in writing with SASE - though if Bob asks for material, he'll usually telephone you or send an email.

I queried Bob yesterday via e-mail and got a response literally 25 minutes later for the first three chapters. Then a hour later he asked for the next three. I emailed him if he had any thoughts, and Bob said he hadn't had a chance to read the last three, but made a good critique. So, I'm hopeful!

Congratulations lweinberg. What address did you use? Querytracker says he only takes snail mail. Did you include samples and synopsis?

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Congratulations lweinberg. What address did you use? Querytracker says he only takes snail mail. Did you include samples and synopsis?

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Thanks, Kmarshall! I forget where I found him to be honest, so many sites and all, but it said he does accept e-queries and to just include the query. The email I sent to was at [email protected]

Good Luck!

Thanks! I'll give him a try.

No problem. Good luck!

Thanks. He came back quickly with a request for the 1st thee chapters. Sent them off a couple of hours ago.

Nice! Hope he comes back for the next three. I just looked and it took him 2 1/2 hours to write me back requesting the chapters 4 - 6.

Not so much here. Hope that's not a bad sign. Still, it IS a Saturday. He's a responder either way, right?

He doesn't always respond. I queried him by mail early in '10. He emailed a request for 3 chapters (to be emailed). I emailed them, didn't hear back, prompted 6 weeks later, still didn't hear back.

kap

I agree with KAP, he doesn't always respond on requests. He requested a partial from me in 2009 and never responded even when I nudged.

It's true, Bob's a great person, but he often fails to respond, even when he seems utterly excited about a project. I have learned to gauge this lack of response as a lack of interest. But, best of luck to you, lweinberg18 and Kmarshall. Here's to hoping!

I didn't hear back from him after I sent him chapters 4 - 6, so being anxious I emailed him, and surprisingly he responded quickly and said he hadn't a chance to read them yet, but he did give me a "primarily" critique. So hopefully that's a good sign :-\

Kmarshall- I'd assume since it's Saturday he didn't get to it. Just like yesterday I assumed he hadn't read chapters 4 - 6 because it was Friday...and I was right! Haha

Well, we'll see how it goes. lweinberg, you're experience is a great one! I'll temper my expectations to the usual 4-8 week partial time. If I don't hear then, I'll nudge and see what happens. I have fulls out since mid Feb. that I'm getting anxious about.

Congrats on the full's! I've only started querying last week so no full's yet. I have noticed I get a lot of personal rejection responses. I don't know if that's usual or not. I'm to about 15 now Lol

I have those too. From what I gather, it means the agent respects the work and recognized it's good, but it's just not for him/her.

That's good to know. Thanks for the insight!

I can't seem to find a link as to what he represents...
Can you tell us (anyone who sent him something) what genre you subbed?
Cheers.

Robert Thixton's bio for this year's ThrillerFest states:

My basic preference is thrillers and suspense (contemporary or historical), contemporary literary fiction and non-fiction (women and men), Y/A historical fantasy, some sci-fi.

TerryRodgers said:

Robert Thixton's bio for this year's ThrillerFest states:

My basic preference is thrillers and suspense (contemporary or historical), contemporary literary fiction and non-fiction (women and men), Y/A historical fantasy, some sci-fi.

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Thanks for posting that!
Cheers!

lweinberg18: Any word? None here.

This sounds vaguely familiar, similar to the experience(s) I had....I still have my fingers crossed for you two, though!