Form Q: 9/18/20
ER: 1/16/21

SF 83K

FQ - 1/12/21
98K Adult Thriller

1/4/21 - FQ

98K - Contemporary Romance - Outlaw Motorcycle Club Romance - 1st in Series

Profile Update: Open to queries.

Thanks cterlson

Today on twitter, her agency said it was open for submissions now.

@CorvisieroLit

EQ; 9/4/20
ER: 12/29/20, note from an intern named Tessa Shaffer.

After hearing all this I’m wondering if I should accept her if she wants to represent me... should I? I really don’t know.

I queried this agent a few months ago before I heard of the drama surrounding her. I never received a reply so I thought it was a CNR anyway but I got a full manuscript request today. As great as it is, I just don’t think she is the right person to represent me. Her comments regarding BLM coupled with the fact that she still continued to represent Dashner after he was dropped from Penguin after sexual misconduct allegations is a big red flag. Also, a lot of her staff withdrew over these issues back in June and the ones that didn’t withdraw were fired unjustly after she received backlash for her tweets. I’ll hold out for the right agent for both me and my work :)

I'm very surprised she still has the agency running, and I would proceed with caution.

To elaborate (and correct) some of the information on here:

What happened was that she posted something about the BLM protests. On its own it didn't come across as particularly offensive, but people went back through her Twitter account and discovered she'd "liked" a lot of tweets with racist/sexist/etc. content in them. It didn't surprise many people, because she'd recently taken on an author accused of sexual harassment (he'd been fired from elsewhere because of it).

When this came to light she fired her entire staff. It was also discovered she'd been using a fake Manhattan address to make her business look more prestigious.

I have also been told behind the scenes that some authors have had issues with some of her political views.

Profile Update: Closed to queries.

Thanks Mesmer7

Their twitter account says "Attention authors, we are closing the query box December 1, 2020 until January 2, 2021 unless your work has been requested. We need to catch up on the queries we already have. We look forward to hearing from you in the new year!"

Well, I guess I can finally update:

EQ/FQ: 04/14/2019
PR: 11/23/2020

Finally received a rejection today after 589 loooong days and a lot of nudging. While the critique of my work was helpful, it would have been more helpful significantly closer to my original submission date so I could fix some of the things she suggested before querying others. As it stands, I'm just feeling a bit discouraged now. I think she might have been applying her lens of primarily representing romance to see my story through a different light than I intended, genre-wise, and since that wasn't where I was leaning, she might have thought that my focus wasn't quite there.

EQ Sept 1 MG Supernatural.
Form Rejection 19. November

EQ: 17 Nov 20
ER: 19 Nov 20

Adult suspense/thriller, 80k

Nice form rejection. Always good to get the first one out of the way with new queries.

OF: 5/14/2020
CNR: 8/20/2020
ER: 11/18/2020

164 K Adult Fantasy

Can't believe she held on to it for this long. The notice was a form letter, but she did say she "found great qualities in my work." That's encouraging, at least. Onward and upward!