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Ms. Merrilee Heifetz
Writers House
21 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10010
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Website: www.writershouse.com/
Twitter: MerrileeHeifetz
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E-Mail: Yes (preferred)
Online Form: No
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P 1/20 first fifty
Full request 1/23
R&R 3/19
Revision sent 11/30 (2018)
R&R round 2: 4/17 (2019)
96 K Adult fantasy
107k YA fantasy
Partial request from assistant: 3/15
Partial sent: 3/15
Partial: 3/12
YA Historical Fantasy, 60K
Rejection: 2-22-19
Form. A rejection is always better than ghosting!
About a minute later got a message that my email had not been delivered due to
" SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:
550 High probability of spam"
Not sure why my query would get spammed, I followed the submissions guidelines, no attachments, the word query in the subject line...anyway, at least I got the notification so I was able to re-send from another email. Seems like it must have been the fact that my email is at my personal domain?? I can't be the only writer who has an email like that.
12/12/18 Nudged with offer of representation from another agent
12/13/18 Rejection from assistant (Rebecca Eskildsen)
Partial Request: 11/9/18
Full Request: 11/13/18
Full Rejection: 12/12/18
YA Fantasy, 88k
EQ: 9/05
ER: 10/17
ER: 10/17/18
80k Sci-Fi Humor
EQ: 7/5/18
FR: 7/24/2018
Update Email: 9/13/2018
R&R, detailed, encouraging, and helpful: 10/13/2018
I'll be making the changes since this is my second RnR for the same basic problem.
ER: 8/20/18
140K SF (Mixed Genre really, but SF is the most undeniable one)
Very nice personalized form rejection
PR: 5/16
FR: 5/18
follow up on 6/25
ER: Very kind rejection summed up with "didn't connect enough" and better with a more passionate agent.
SciFi 99k
Partial 24 July 2018; already had an offer elsewhere, so partial upgraded to full.
27th July 2018 - Polite rejection of full.
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