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Website: www.dystel.com
Twitter: jkpapin
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PR: 6/2016
P Sent: 8/27/16
Follow up : 1/30/17
I have withdrawn this submission. Although Jessica had requested the full after receiving sample chapters, she did not respond to the submission or my follow up. A few weeks ago, I emailed that I would withdraw the mss, no hard feelings, unless she let me know it was still under consideration (it's been two years). She did not reply. I'm a little surprised by her silence, as she seems like a lovely person and I thought she'd at least reject me, but sometimes things slip through the cracks. Anyway, alas. I'm disheartened in general by the process but have revised the mss since the submission and I'm moving on.
ER 9/27/19 (Passed via nudge-not right agent)
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Submission guidelines say not to query more than one agent at this agency, either simultaneously or sequentially. The agents share queries with each other a lot, so a NO from one agent is a NO from all the agents there. Guidelines also say to re-query if you have not had a response to your query within 8 weeks.
9/22/16: Full Request
11/28/16: Interim reply expressing positive assessment so far.
1/20/17: Nudge email:
2/16/17: Second nudge
2/17/17: Reply; Still reading.
4/4/17: Suggested I revise and resubmit.
6/9/17: Query asking to resubmit.
6/9/17: Reply; Re-submitted.
12/15/17: Nudge
1/8/18: Rejection (albeit a kind one).
(query + first 25 pages. Requires the manuscript pages to be double spaced when they're pasted into the email. Not always easy to assure.)
Women's fiction - 102k
Proposal request: 8/22
Offer of representation 8/29 (I almost fell over)
Offer accepted 9/6
My agent!!
8/27/16: Finally sent out my first three chapters. Let the worrying begin!!
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