LaunchBooks Literary Agency (David Fugate)

Their links in:
PM: http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/cgi-bin/dealmaker.pl?id=216 ,
David Fugate on P&E: http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/peald.htm ,
his linkedin pate: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-fugate/0/5b4/261,
loads of technical book that Mr. Fugate has sold can be found on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=david+fugate&x=11&y=21
Here's their submission criteria: http://www.launchbooks.com/submissions.html

His blog looks gooood. I've linked to it from mine before now (not sure if that's a recommendation or not!).

David Fugate was my agent when he worked at Waterside Productions. He's completely legit, and I enjoyed working with him. LaunchBooks is an appropriate name for the agency he founded, because he really helped to launch the technical/how-to side of my career.

Nancy (Conner) Holzner

I have a problem with his site. Literally. Every time I try to look at LaunchBooks, my anti-virus throws up a warning about the site being infected. Anyone else experiencing this?

OK, thanks, I'll try it again!

Just a follow-up: I queried, received a reply next day from David Fugate. Very nice guy who even went to my website to look over more than mentioned in my query. Although it was ultimately a rejection, he gave me some great advice about blog stats, what numbers draw a publisher's attention, etc. Kind to the nth degree.

Hi, I just queried Launchbooks based on Jeff Herman's book which said David allocates 5% to fiction. Not true anymore. I received a nice note from David saying he's focused solely on non-fiction.

I've been ghostwriting a memoir for an author who queried David on 5/9/11 and got a form rejection on 5/15.

I just wanted to add to the mix here. I sent a query letter to Launchbooks and received this rejection letter back.


Thanks for contacting me about your work. Unfortunately, I don't think it's quite a fit for me as an agent. However, I would encourage you to contact other agents about your work as often it's just a matter of talking to enough people until you find someone who connects with what you're doing.

And of course, I wish you all the best of success with the book going forward.

Best regards,

--David


it was very friendly, it was positive and it came less than 24 hrs after the query letter. It was nice to hear back from someone in a positive way. One rejection I got was simply "Not for me. - Signed, So n So". or no response at all.

So While I'm bummed the book wasn't for him, at least he did it in a way that didn't make me feel like crap. lol

David is a very nice guy and wonderful to work with. We're publishing one of his clients, Anne Meyers-Drysdale - amazing athlete and wife of Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdalke.

Hi team,

This may have been covered before but I couldn't find an answer.

He doesn't have querying specifics on his page. Does anyone know what query package he prefers?

Thanks in advance

P.K. Torrens said:

Hi team,

This may have been covered before but I couldn't find an answer.

He doesn't have querying specifics on his page. Does anyone know what query package he prefers?

Thanks in advance

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According to his Publishers Marketplace page, he wants just a query letter.

Link: https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/launchbooks/

Thanks, eqb

eqb said:

According to his Publishers Marketplace page, he wants just a query letter.

Link: https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/launchbooks/

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Sent in a query letter on 27/6 got a nice form rejection today (1/7). Nice to know that his 1 week turn around is accurate.

That intrigues me because he was one of my 'reach agents' and while I recall the outcome of most of those 'reach queries,' I don't recall his response to my query. So I checked my spreadsheet.

I queried on February 12 of last year and did not hear back. (At least, I have no record of hearing back, and I'm a bit compulsive when it comes to data and record-keeping.)

I'd assumed he didn't respond to queries; had a "no response means no" policy, but perhaps it simply depends.