The Knight Agency (Deidre Knight)

I took a look at their site. Impressive.

I also read this page: http://knightagency.blogspot.com/2006/11/you-got-questions-i-got-answers.html where you can ask questions every Thursday. The first five questions will be answered. I found them informative.

Thanks, Chumplet! I'll try that. Good luck with you new query!

Diana Peterfreund said:

Thanks, Chumplet! I'll try that. Good luck with you new query!

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Welcome, Diana! I've seen your name a lot on agents blogs, read your own blog and a recent artivcle by you on RTB. You're a great addition to this forum. I look forward to your contributions.

Seconded. Welcome, Diana, and thanks very much for the input. Sure hope you'll stick around and play with us.

I had a look at The Knight Agency website and they appear to have altered their guidelines so that they now consider SF/F as a separate category from genre/romance crossover. Does anyone know who would be the appropriate agent there to query about an adventure fantasy novel? There's some romance in it, but that is not the main thread.

waylander said:

I had a look at The Knight Agency website and they appear to have altered their guidelines so that they now consider SF/F as a separate category from genre/romance crossover. Does anyone know who would be the appropriate agent there to query about an adventure fantasy novel? There's some romance in it, but that is not the main thread.

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I believe that would be Nephele Tempest, who maintains a separate office in Los Angeles. Right now I'm waiting to hear back from her on a full manuscript, so wish me luck!

Thank you, Aruna. Jenna, I'm in awe of everything you do here! (I just finished reading the thread on NYLA and I'm still in shock.)

I second Carly. Address email queries to the address they list for submissions on their website. The submissions coordinator will pass it along to the agent most suited to it. Good luck!

Also, I think they are closed for the holidays from Dec 23rd to January 2, so you might be in for a wait.

Thanks for the great tip, Carly and Diana.

They weild a good deal of power in the romance industry. The only complaint I have ever heard is that they also write, and some have hinted that success for writers named Knight has been unearned. My impression of that small rumble was sour grapes.

I do know two people with them who seem very happy.

OK so I e-mailed my query (after they reopened) to the Knight Agency as per the instructions on the website and it bounced - twice. Has anyone else has this problem?

I emailed them with a query on the 8th, and nothing has bounced back. Haven't gotten my rejection yet, either, but it's still early.

allen

I e-queried them twice in Fall 2006 and was rejected twice...so their system definitely works, ha ha. Just resend as they had a problem with their system awhile back. I thought it was fixed, though.

I submitted in September and it didn't bounce - I don't have my rejection yet, but that's just a matter of time

I queried them via their website the first week of January and received my rejection a week later so it works.

sorry, jodiodi. better luck next time.

rootin' for ya, midnightmuse!

Lucienne Diver now at The Knight Agency

Apologies if someone else already posted the news. I just found out from reading Nephele Tempest's blog:

http://nephele.livejournal.com/

Lucienne Diver also has a livejournal at http://varkat.livejournal.com/ - she talks about both agenting and being a writer.

Has anyone queried this agency recently? Any info on response times? Their website says two weeks in one spot and up to 15 weeks in another. Just wondering what the latest experiences were.

JenWriter said:

Has anyone queried this agency recently? Any info on response times? Their website says two weeks in one spot and up to 15 weeks in another. Just wondering what the latest experiences were.

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I've had a query out for 13 days.

Blondchen said:

I've had a query out for 13 days.

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I think mine is the same.

JenWriter said:

Has anyone queried this agency recently? Any info on response times? Their website says two weeks in one spot and up to 15 weeks in another. Just wondering what the latest experiences were.

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I got an email rejection in two days back in January.

Never replied

I would like to say that in my past experience with querying TKA (who does not rep me, btw) that in the past they have an EXTREMELY aggressive spam filter.

If you are not hearing something, I would definitely recommend checking further into this (or re-querying).

It's been about three weeks now. Should I go ahead and send a email to check up on it?