D4EO Literary Agency (formerly D4EO Literary Partners) (Robert Diforio)

sorry about the R, beth light. though anything but a form R is always a good sign.

Sorry to hear about the R Beth. I was wondering what day you sent in your full? I'm waiting to hear back from her myself!

Beth Light said:

I got a very nice R today from Mandy. She had really nice things to say about my writing and had some really great feedback. She ultimately rejected my ms because it was too old to be YA. Oh well. I think it's more of a NA book right now, but I'm working on revisions to make it more YA. We'll see.

Anyway, Mandy was great. I have nothing but nice things to say about her and how she works.

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mgkatz said:

Sorry to hear about the R Beth. I was wondering what day you sent in your full? I'm waiting to hear back from her myself!

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I sent my full out to her on the 18th of Feb. But, she has said she doesn't read fulls in the order she receives them.

Good luck, Beth Light, with whatever you end up deciding to do with your novel. Her positive comments on your writing is definitely a bonus.

Mandy is FAST. Sent query ten minutes ago and got a request for a full 5 minutes later. I have to thank my amazing beta Beth Light for telling me to query her

Queried 3-29, rejected today.

Queried Ms. Holland yesterday. We'll see how it goes.

And a polite R. I love it when thry're prompt.

Annarkie said:

And a polite R. I love it when thry're prompt.

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Sorry about the R, Annarkie.

Thanks, Tuuli They sound like a good agency.

Anyone have a full out with Mandy? She just tweeted this:

"I create folders for all my clients in Gmail. I think I get to create a new one today. "

If so, have your phone handy and good luck!

I just saw that! Anyone know how many clients she has now? I'm hoping to requery her in August.

Saw that Robert also reps romance, so I'll give him a shot.

Ms. Hubbard @ D4EO

I e-queried Ms. Hubbard on 4-23-10 (yesterday) and would be thrilled if she connects with my first YA novel. She's a big "tweeter," so I've followed her closely today in hopes of reading something I can squeal about.

I'll keep you all posted! Please check out my blog at www.toryminus.blogspot.com Have a great weekend, everyone! Tory

Robert emailed me back saying that his colleague already rejected it, wished me luck and signed it "Bob."
Guess an R from 1 is an R from all.

I have mixed feelings about that policy.

Still I'm sure they would've been great to work with.

Just curious...

Hi. Just wondering if anyone else besides Annarkie has queried Joyce. If so, has she requested a partial or full from anybody and what are her response times like? Thanks.

I friend of mine received a call from her asking for my friend's full. This came months after my friend queried her. She's still waiting to hear back.

Tuuli said:

I friend of mine received a call from her asking for my friend's full. This came months after my friend queried her. She's still waiting to hear back.

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Thanks for the info. Was curious since there was only one mention of her in the thread.

Mandy Hubbard got back to me within six hours of my equery. She is working on edits to her mermaid-based novel RIPPLE and isn't accepting anything with mermaids or sirens until her own novel goes into copyedits in September. She invited me to requery at that time.

I posted an interview with Ms. Hubbard on my blog this morning. Here's the link:

http://motherwrite.blogspot.com/2010/08/interview-with-agent-mandy-hubbard.html

Good luck to everyone waiting to hear back from her!

I want to post in about Weronika Janczuk, a new agent at D43O. She offered me rep on my graphic novel. She admitted she's never worked on graphic novels, but she really liked the project and she persuaded her boss it was worth taking on. I wound up accepting an offer from an agent with more experience in the genre, and Weronika was very gracious and understanding about it. I have to give her props for her willingness to try something outside her experience, her honesty with me up front about her status in the industry, and her professionalism overall.

So send her your best stuff, everyone!

Mandy requested my full at around 1:00 am last night, when she tweeted she felt snarky while reading queries...thank god for gritty older YA.

Joyce Holland

Sakura-chan said:

Thanks for the info. Was curious since there was only one mention of her in the thread.

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I have a full out with Joyce Holland.
She's had it for a little over 3 months. Not sure of the turn around time.

I sent Weronika Janczuk a partial on the 23rd, but no response so far and her blog said she's gotten through manuscripts through the 24th. I'll give it until her next update before I check in. Normally I wouldn't be so quick, but she's like lightning and seems to respond to everything, so... yeah.

Yeah, I got a 3 hour rejection from Weronika a few weeks ago, but I have a sneaking suspicion that my formatting issues were a big red flag to reject. I hate cutting and pasting my nicely formatted manuscript into e-mail. I wind up with spaces and weird line breaks -- and this is even when I paste from an rtf doc.