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Electronically queried Jodi Reamer in mid-January. Not among the Noble 238 (almost sorry to be-they're sure to pass into writerly lore), but I am wondering whether I ought to query again to be sure it got there.
I know she's very busy, and her assistant is said to be very busy, and hadn't thought much of it until checking Query Tracker. Several e-queries sent after mine by more than a month have duly received their polite e-passes. I would guess unsolicited queries are dispatched in the order received, which would mean mine probably got lost somewhere along the way.
What do you think? Is three and a half months still at least semi-normal for an agent this in-demand? And if I do follow up, er, how exactly does one go about that?
I have the same issue, only with another agent at this agency (and a couple others at different agencies as well). I think what you do is wait on it a week or so and then send an email with REQUERY in the subject line or so. I can't be entirely sure as I have done this already and didn't receive a response (from an agent who normally responds to everyone). But you can try it if you wish.
Electronically queried Jodi Reamer in mid-January. Not among the Noble 238 (almost sorry to be-they're sure to pass into writerly lore), but I am wondering whether I ought to query again to be sure it got there.
I know she's very busy, and her assistant is said to be very busy, and hadn't thought much of it until checking Query Tracker. Several e-queries sent after mine by more than a month have duly received their polite e-passes. I would guess unsolicited queries are dispatched in the order received, which would mean mine probably got lost somewhere along the way.
What do you think? Is three and a half months still at least semi-normal for an agent this in-demand? And if I do follow up, er, how exactly does one go about that?
NEVER put "requery" in the subject line. Most agencies have a policy that doesn't allow writers to requery the same project. If you send that, you'll end up in the SPAM folder or get deleted unread.
Same. I queried her January 13th and nada. I too saw QT's stats and people after me got requests and rejections. So...I just requeried since 2.5 months does not seem to be the norm for her. *shrug* If she doesn't respond, 'twas not meant to be. When she requested my last ms it was exactly one month, so I have no clue what happened on this round.
NEVER put "requery" in the subject line. Most agencies have a policy that doesn't allow writers to requery the same project. If you send that, you'll end up in the SPAM folder or get deleted unread.
LOL How long should I wait?
Sorry, Cyia! Thought you were referring to my post.
I don't know that agent's response times. As Cyia said re: JR, she responds at the 1-1.5 month mark, via her assistant. Normally I never requery and chalk it up to a non-responder, but JR seems to always respond so I figured I'd try once more....
NEVER put "requery" in the subject line. Most agencies have a policy that doesn't allow writers to requery the same project. If you send that, you'll end up in the SPAM folder or get deleted unread.
Slart,
JR almost never asks for a patial, and you should know that going in. Her stats are something like 1%. From what I gather, she's very methodical and requests or rejects in order. So the requests don't take longer, far as I can tell.
Also, her assistant reads the query, the partial, the full. Then, if he likes what he sees, he passes it all on to JR. I'm not a fan of this system because it gives the assistant all the power, but in this instance, that's how she does things.
Cricket,
Thanks a lot. I figured he did the screening, but it seems we don't know whether she looks at just the final product (a full he thinks she'll like) or the queries/partials as well.
According to a response on QT, her assistant says she does not read the partials, so my guess is once he reads the full and likes it, he passes the full on to her.
The only reason it matters is that I'm wary of following up, but would like to query one other agent at Writers House. I think I'll hold off, at least until there's a request that post-dates my query.
That could be a loooong time. If you look at QT, months and months and months can go by before someone records a request. If any agent doesn't respond after 3 months, it's safe and fair to query at that point.
These are the sorts of silly games I play with myself instead of writing.
And yeah, I don't think I fully appreciated when I queried just how selective an agent she is. I don't mind waiting as long as she takes, so long as it got to her.
Well, if it's been more than 1.5 months, my sense is she did not.