EQ: 7/10
Query Nudge: 8/13
MG, Contemporary

" I’ll reply to let you know if I’m interested in seeing more of your work, usually within four weeks of receiving your message. If you don’t hear from me within that time, feel free to query again."

8/12/18: EQ re: Brogwin - MG. Received immediate auto-response of receipt.

EQ: 8/03/18

107K YA Fantasy

EQ 8/2/18 YA Fantasy

EQ: 7/25/18 YA Fantasy 96K

Really stoked to see Susan opened to queries again!

EQ 7/30/18

103K YA LGBTQ+ spec-fic

EQ: 7/13/18

YA Contemporary Fantasy, 79,000 words

EQ - PB 7/12

This is the email I received after sending the query:

Automatic Reply: Submission Received

Hello and many thanks for your submission!

This note confirms that I’ve received your query. I’ll reply to let you know if I’m interested in seeing more of your work, usually within four weeks of receiving your message. If you don’t hear from me within that time, feel free to query again.

Please take a minute now to be sure that you’ve included the correct information in your query:

-- Querying a picture book text? Please paste the complete text within the body of your email.
-- Querying picture book illustrations? Please include a link to your online portfolio and/or to your downloadable dummy.
-- Querying a novel or longer length work? please paste the first twenty pages within the body of your email.

If your original query is missing this information, don’t worry. Just re-send with correct information and I’ll delete the first query. I don’t consider queries that don’t include pages or art, and will not reply to these.

Many thanks for your interest. I look forward to reading your work!

Very best,
Susan Hawk
Literary Agent
Upstart Crow Literary

Profile Update: Open to queries.

I'm marking her as open to queries, but something odd did happen. The submissions page on their website changed this morning and listed her as open. But then it changed back removing her from their open list. Not sure if that was a website issue or she changed her mind about opening. But since she has not updated her Twitter to show that she closed again, I'm going to assume it is a problem with their website.

She announced on Twitter she's open for queries and she tweeted #MSWL.

EQ: 7/9 105K YA fantasy
According to Twitter, she announced last week that she would be open to queries starting Monday (today). After emailing her, I received an auto-response saying she was closed to queries and to check Twitter to see when she would be open again. Should I re-submit?

From Twitter: opening to queries on July 9th

Is anyone else waiting to hear back on a request?
I forgot to track this, but I believe I had sent to her in January.....

EQ - 10th Jan (although she's closed to submissions this was a #dvpit Tweet she'd liked)
Nudge with offer of representation - 2nd Jan
Polite email saying she didn't have time to read by my deadline of 9th Jan and wishing me luck - 3rd Jan