Folio Literary Management

Stacy said:

Yikes! thanks for responding. Her page states that she responds to every query within 4 to 6 weeks. I am now wondering if a lot of persons are getting the same response rate as us?
I hope that you get a response soon. I will share if I get any. Good luck with your querying.

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Any updates on the response time? I sent a query on 9/14/13, requested update on 12/20/13. Thanks!

I queried Katherine Latshaw and got an auto response saying that she was closed to queries because of a family emergency. So I actually forgot about the query altogether until I got a full request on 12/9, only about 2 weeks after I sent the query. All my experience with this agency has been good and fairly quick (Erin Niumata requested a past novel from a twitter pitch and apologized for the "long delay" when it had only been like two weeks) but it might depend on the agent. They could be having email problems also. Maybe your emails were lost?

Tromboli said:

I queried Katherine Latshaw and got an auto response saying that she was closed to queries because of a family emergency. So I actually forgot about the query altogether until I got a full request on 12/9, only about 2 weeks after I sent the query. All my experience with this agency has been good and fairly quick (Erin Niumata requested a past novel from a twitter pitch and apologized for the "long delay" when it had only been like two weeks) but it might depend on the agent. They could be having email problems also. Maybe your emails were lost?

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Perhaps although I hope that isn't the case. I'm not finding anything recent online about this particular agent at all. There's little I could do but move on to the next agent.

Thedrellum said:

EQ to Emily Van Beek: 4/12/13
Referred to Erin Harris, who requested a full + synopsis: 4/17/13

YA Science-Fiction 67K words

She also requested a two-week exclusive, but I already have a few other agents looking at partials/fulls.

I've never been referred before. It's exciting!

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I just had the opposite (sort of) happen. Queried Katherine Latwshaw, she requested the full but didn't "connect with the writing" but suggested I submit to Emily Van Beek which I just did. We'll see how it goes.

Anyone else having trouble with the site? Tried to send a query to Michael H., and it bounced back. Nothing on twitter, either. Glad I submitted to Michelle when I did. . .

Queried Molly Jaffa yesterday! She requested the past two manuscripts I queried and rejected with heavy, "I wish I loved this just a little more" rejections. Hopefully she likes this one that little bit more.

I sent an email query to Jita Fumich a while back. The website says her response time is 4-6 weeks, and it's now been about 9 weeks. By the look of their website, they respond to all queries, so I'm afraid my email got lost somehow. Has anyone else had experience with this?

Anne, I think it depends on the agent. Example, I submitted to Emily (with a referral which makes a no response a little dissapointing) and her policy is no response means no.

Good luck Becca! Seems like she's a good fit for you if she was that close on two books! Hope it works out for you

J. Anne Bradshaw said:

I sent an email query to Jita Fumich a while back. The website says her response time is 4-6 weeks, and it's now been about 9 weeks. By the look of their website, they respond to all queries, so I'm afraid my email got lost somehow. Has anyone else had experience with this?

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I'm thinking about submitting to her, too, but I'm a little worried. I looked her up on Query Tracker and saw a lot of comments about no response to queries. I'm wondering if she's still active as an agent. Anyone know?

Bumping this to see if anyone knows about Jita Fumich.

Mellanah said:

Bumping this to see if anyone knows about Jita Fumich.

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Have you queried her yet? She's still on the Folio agent page, so I'd assume she's still there. If she's your top pick at the agency, what could it hurt to try? You could always query someone else there if she doesn't respond after a few months.

Quickbread said:

Have you queried her yet? She's still on the Folio agent page, so I'd assume she's still there. If she's your top pick at the agency, what could it hurt to try? You could always query someone else there if she doesn't respond after a few months.

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I did go ahead and submit. I just noticed a lot of complaints on Query Tracker about no response and worried.

I hope you hear back from her soon. Good luck!

I queried Jita back in Sept 2013 I think it was, never got any response.

On their 'Basic information on query letters' page, Folio Literary has some unusual requirements. For a fiction query, all they want is fiction credits plus a logline:The example they give is, indeed, a simple logline, without any mention of characters, conflict, setting, choices, etc.

Also:They give an example of query letter that, if double spaced a printed out in 12 pt type, would be one and a half to two pages. Half the vertical space of the letter is addresses, salutation, and signature.

I cannot imagine an agent requesting a partial from seeing just a logline. Do people actually follow this advice when querying Folio, or do you just send a normal query? Has anyone gotten a positive response from sending them a logline?

Edit: never mind. I should have dug deeper into the thread. This question was asked and answered two years ago. Sounds like everyone ignores the advice and submits a 'normal' query.

Yep, I sent a normal query, too, and got a full request off it.

Quickbread said:

Yep, I sent a normal query, too, and got a full request off it.

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Ditto this, although I never heard one way or another on the requested full. I did send a nudge but have now written it off as an R.

E-queried Erin last week and got a request for a partial this morning.

Happy dancing.

Fired one off to Mrs Sarver White.

Send good vibes!

Got a quick and in-depth reply with feedback from Erin. Revise & resubmit.

Has anyone else noticed that the Folio Lit website seems to have suddenly turned into a PayDay Advance / Viagra Sales site?

Hmm. You must have the wrong URL. I just went there and it's up and running fine. Foliolit.com.

dannyboylee said:

Has anyone else noticed that the Folio Lit website seems to have suddenly turned into a PayDay Advance / Viagra Sales site?

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Run a virus search Dannyboylee, it sounds like you might have been re-directed.

Lady Silver said:

Run a virus search Dannyboylee, it sounds like you might have been re-directed.

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+1... you definitely have a problem. Run the free Malewarebytes tool; it's very good...

https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/

Nope, not a virus. The website was definitely hacked.

The front page looks fine, but try clicking on any of the links and you'll see what I mean.