EQ: 4/6

lit fic, 92k

Mark33: Agents get anywhere from 200 to 500 queries a week. You're asking them to read your query, and respond personally, to 200-500 emails a week. They only get paid if their current clients earn money. So reading our query letters, and responding to them, not only doesn't make them any money, it takes time away from their clients for whom they are supposed to be working. Can you imagine being a client of an agent who spends their entire week on personally responding to 300 emails of people they can't represent because of genre, current client list, or writing ability? "Why haven't you sold my book, agent?" "Oh, sorry client, I had to answer 250 query letters with personalized rejections." That is why they can't respond in a "more personal manner." I am happy if I get a form rejection, because I know to move on. Some agents don't respond at all if it is a rejection, because of writers like you who give them a hard time for clicking a button and sending form letters so we aren't left wondering. This is a long process. Just mark the query status here as "rejected", select "hide rejections" from your query list so you don't have to stare at red sad faces, and keep going.

I got the "Dear Writer" response too. They cannot respond in a more personal manner? If they're so bad at writing that they're unable to even include my name or their own name, perhaps they're not the best people to be asking to help us with getting our writing published.

EQ 3/10/18 78,000 word American Noir novel
ER 3/24/2018 Form rejection

EQ:2/21
HF: 119k
ER 3/12/18. Form letter:

Dear Writer:

Thank you for your inquiry. We are sorry that we cannot invite you to submit your work or offer to represent you. Moreover, we apologize that we cannot respond in a more personal manner. We wish you the best of luck elsewhere.
Sincerely,

Dunham Literary, Inc.

EQ 2/7/18 (Requery Diplomatic Immunity)
ER 3/1/18 (Passed--no reason why.)

EQ: 01/06/2018
FR: 01/18/2018

YA contemporary

1/2/18: EQ re: Gatsby Delaney - MG fiction
1/18/18: form rejection

Profile Update: Open to queries.

Profile Update: Closed to queries.

EQ: 10/18/2017 75k Hist Fic Fam Saga YA
ER: 11/06/2017 form rejection

9/28 EQ
19/11 ER

Typical, cold and rude "Dear Writer" form lol.

EQ Memoir 9/13
Form Rejection 9/28

EQ: 09/05/2017 88k Hist Fic Thrl
ER: 09/19/2017 form rejection

Profile Update: Open to queries.