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I doubt it.. A partial takes some time and committment to read. 1,500 is a huge number. No agent I've had could possibly read so many. Many agents have only one or two days per weeks to read queries, partials, and manuscripts. No agent I've had has ever requested more than a couple of hundred partials over the course of a year, tops.
I assume a new agent with no real stable, or a small agent with a small stable, would be able to request a large number of partials, but partials really do take a lot of time, and when you consider all else an agent has to do with her time, well.
The one thing I know for certain is that there were one heck of a lot more than 21,000 writers looking for agents last year. I mean, I wish the number was so small.
At any given time there are six million unpublished novels floating around out there. I doubt anyone knows how many of tehse writers are looking for an agent at any given time, but it's a sizeable percentage. Certianly in the high hundreds of thousands. There are some 1,500 agents out there, and most of them are swamped, many much more so than ths agency.
Simultaneous submissions make up a good percentage of what they see, but most of the slush doesn't overlap, and even what does overlaps with only a few other agencies.
If no more than 21,000 writers were looking for agents, then gettign an agent would be easy.
Have any guys here been taken on as a client? I notice that only 3 of 30 listed clients on their website are male. Wondering if I should even bother?
Have any guys here been taken on as a client? I notice that only 3 of 30 listed clients on their website are male. Wondering if I should even bother?
Found the post, I think: http://nelsonagency.com/2010/02/looking-for-a-few-good-men/I'd definitely query her. She admitted on her blog several years ago that, at least at that time, she was giving men's queries a softer read, since she was eager to add more men to her list.
Found the post, I think: http://nelsonagency.com/2010/02/looking-for-a-few-good-men/
Quressa Robinson has joined Nelson Literary Agency as an agent, based in New York. Previously she was editor at Thomas Dunne Books and agent at D4EO Agency. Her list will include literary, science fiction and fantasy, romance, nonfiction, and young adult literature.
Does anyone have any information on Quressa Robinson? I know she used to be an editor, but it looks like she's been an agent for a number of years now, and I don't see any sales. I'm asking because I think she'd be a good fit for my book and the agency is solid, but I'm not sure if she makes sales.