[Agency] Writers House

Beckstah said:

Awww Ruth2, I'm so sorry... I hope their feedback will be useful to you!

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I think it will. I hope it will. We'll see...

Thanks, Beckstah.

Well, I made the revisions, then had two agented betas read the ms along w' the revision letter, utilized their suggestions, revised a little more than did a line-edit/ polish.
Then I prayed and prayed, attached the MS, prayed some more, then hit "send."

I'm so excited and terrified!

Good luck Annarkie!

Fingers crossed for you, Annarkie!!!

Hey Annarkie, it's just around the corner!!! Good Luck!

Got an automated "In London and out of the office till the 9th" message.
My book is set in London. Perhaps that'll whet her appetite...or make her more aware of inaccuracies.
Yikes! If I was a nail biter, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

Hang in there Annarkie, it's all good!

Hi to everyone!

So here's what happened to me: Sent an equery to Merrilee in March, received a partial request the next day from J. Escott, emailed it right away, and waited for 3 months. Then I sent a nudge since I read on query tracker that J. Escott took like 2 months on partials. It has been more than 2 weeks since I sent the nudge and still nothing...

Anyone knows anything about Merrilee or her assistant?
Thanks for reading this!

Huh, that sounds a little out of character from the last time I dealt with Ms. Escott, which was over a year ago on a different project, of course I did everything snail mail w' her 'cuz I didn't have internet. Maybe you got stuck in her spam folder?

chimita said:

Hi to everyone!

So here's what happened to me: Sent an equery to Merrilee in March, received a partial request the next day from J. Escott, emailed it right away, and waited for 3 months. Then I sent a nudge since I read on query tracker that J. Escott took like 2 months on partials. It has been more than 2 weeks since I sent the nudge and still nothing...

Anyone knows anything about Merrilee or her assistant?
Thanks for reading this!

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I haven't dealt with these two in particular, but I do know that it's a busy time of year right now, with heavy submissions, conferences and vacations. So, they may be running a little slow right now. I'd give them another week or two and then re-send the nudge. Also, check your sent folder to make sure it sent.

Annarkie and Ryan, thanks for answering!

Hm, yeah, maybe I'm in the spam folder or something because I checked on Query TRacker and there were submissions who were sent after mine that already got answered.

But I checked the addy like a thousand times and checked my sent folder, too, like Ryan said, but it was everything okay. And I hate this bc it seems I have the worst luck ever with agents and my submissions, I mean, I have 4 other agents who have my ms since a LONG time ago and haven't answered either... and they are also the ones who usually answer... but my email IS working! ARGH!

Okay... it was good to vent, LOL

Sage said:

Merilee/Jennifer took 4 months to reject a full of a previous novel for me (November '09 to March '10), and didn't respond to my 3-month status query either, so I wouldn't think too much of it.

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Thanks, Sage, for sharing your experience... So I guess I'll try to forget about it, then. *sighs*
Wish you luck with your own submissions!

Jennifer asked for a partial from me on July 1 (I queried by email on June 30), and she said it would be 4-6 weeks till I could expect a response.

I've sent my query to Mr. Lazar yesterday. Let's hope the bests. Until this time, no response.

Has anyone heard from Dan Lazar recently? I sent him a query almost a month ago and heard nothing. is he a no response means no kinda guy?

Poppy, when I queried him in March he was extremely quick - a day and a half to a form R. Send it again in a few weeks if you don't hear from him!

Okay. I queried him a long time ago with a different project and he requested and rejected within a week, so I was curious. Thanks.

I queried him in May and recieved an R the next day.

Hi all. I've been lurking for a little while and finally joined yesterday. Just wanted to chime in to say that I queried Dan late last month and got a request for a full the next day. He rejected the MS a week later.

PoppysInARow said:

Has anyone heard from Dan Lazar recently? I sent him a query almost a month ago and heard nothing. is he a no response means no kinda guy?

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No. I've sent my query to him two days ago and received a kind rejection yesterday.

chimita said:

Thanks, Sage, for sharing your experience... So I guess I'll try to forget about it, then. *sighs*
Wish you luck with your own submissions!

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I'm in the same boat. Have done the status query and never heard back. It's been over 3 months for me.

I'm going to bet he hasn't recieved mine yet. Requery it is!

Hi,

I plan to query Steven Malk by email, but I can't find his submission requirements. On the Writers House website the other agents have a page with their requirements and most will accept 5 or 10 pages of the novel.

Does anyone here know if Steven will accept some pages or should I query with a synopsis only?

Thanks