From Twitter on 10/7/19: I've read through queries emailed by 2/12 (moving through them swiftly), with personalized feedback provided to every partial ms, full ms, or proposal request, always, even if short; such feedback is a guarantee from this agent.

11/29: FWIW, I did not receive personalized feedback on my email query from 7/31. Which is fine--her guarantee is certainly a bridge too far for the volume of queries most agents receive these days.

There is enough concerning anecdotal evidence about this agent that I would very strongly suggest querying authors steer clear. I’m not going to launch any sort of attack or blast, but please, think very carefully about this one.

barnabyhazen,
She took her QueryManager account with her when she changed agencies so If that’s how you queried her she still has it.

I queried her at D4EO on August 8th. Any thoughts on whether I ought to try at her agency when she reopens? I wonder if this slipped through the cracks when she was in transition.

EQ: 7/31
CNR: 10/28 (After posting she’s gotten through all queries until 8/11)

Adult sci-fi 90k

A number of writer friends and I have gotten the exact same "personalized" feedback on partials and fulls-- some months after they signed with other agents or with publishers! So if you get a rambling, condescending email that gives the illusion of personal feedback but really just recommends Donald Maass's book to you, you're in excellent company.

EQ 9/20/19 (Chain Reaction)
ER 10/11/19 (Passed--not good fit)

EQ (query manager): 9/17
ER form: 10/9

EQ: 09/15/19
ER: 09/26/19

YA Contemporary, 85k

Profile Update: Closed to queries.

Hard pass

EQ: 8/1/19
WF 90k
PR: 9/21(sent 9/23) after nudge for offer 8/30 (an offer I have not accepted)

Form rejection after 179 days. I don't think I would query this agent with other projects.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’m pretty sure agents aren’t supposed to use this platform to defend themselves against criticism.

9/16/2019 - So I just got a plain old nothing-personal-in-it rejection. Read the updates here. I'm quite steamed. Why not SAY she's moved on and resend your query there? Instead, I was given the appearance that someone actually reviewed my query AFTER EIGHT MONTHS OF WAITING. This is a horrible way to treat a writer. Who is waiting and waiting, who listened to the agent who told her twice she was 'behind' on queries and just to wait a little longer, who saw other queries get replies that were sent after hers...I was in the garbage bin all this time, I guess.


EQ: 2/8/2019
Sent nudge on March 18 as I saw message about closing to queries in April...Still nothing: 4/8/2019
5/25/19 - received message that she’d get in touch soon. Hopeful!
7/11/19 - nudged today after seeing some got responses for queries received both earlier and later than mine.
7/15/19 - updated message to me that she is now up to queries sent in early January...hope lives on!
8/26/19 - not sure what to think...now reading she is onto queries from March 2019, when mine was sent it before that and she has been very responsive to two of my messages via online form. I guess I keep hope alive, as now I read she had a medical issue. So confusing.

80K Romantic Suspense