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Website: ladderbird.com
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Memoir 88K
Full request: 11/24/21
Sent MS: 11/24/21
Nudged: 4/28/22
Withdrew: 5/31/22
Six months after submitting my requested manuscript, and one month after nudging, I decided to withdraw. To be frank, I wasn't surprised to CNR. Kirsten became an agent less than a year ago. While most new agents are eager to network with other publishing professionals online and put themselves out there to find clients, Kirsten's agency profile links to a Twitter account with some retweets spaced months apart, and she has a writing-related blog with no new posts since Fall 2020. Of course literary agents can be successful without spending their lives on social media, but from what she chooses to share with the public, she just doesn't seem to be embracing the job with enthusiasm.
CNR 4/19/22
LGBTQ+ 109k
Full Request: 12/08
47K word spec short story collection
Nudge: 1/29/22
ER: 1/31/22
Form letter
ER: 12 December, 2021
Polite form rejection.
Adult 83k LitFic
EQ 8/30/21
ER 12/10/21
Form Rejection: 10-13-21
LGBTQIA+ Cont. Fiction, 99K
ER:10/13/21
Received two rejections from her on October 8th.
The first one said she doesn't accept YA (my book is not YA), the second one had an apology for sending me the wrong email and had a standard "this is just not for me" thing after it. At least she made me smile at all this, I'll give her that)
ER: Received 9/30/21
60 days
(Form letter)
Dear Bonni,
Thank you for sending me . I'm grateful to have had the chance to take a look at it. Unfortunately, it does not fit perfectly with my needs at this time. I do encourage you to continue looking for representation because what doesn't work for one agent (or publisher) might absolutely work for another. I wish you the best of luck in your search.
Warmly,
Kirsten Aguilar
Ladderbird Literary Agency
10.3.21. Form Rejection
Thriller
LGBTQ+ Contemporary Fiction 85K
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