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Website: www.ethanellenberg.com
Blog: deniselittle.wordpress.com/
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(Thanks Goblinscribe)
I hope this has demonstrated why this is NEVER a good idea. Do not give an exclusive, do not sit and wait without querying others, because you have no idea how long the wait will be, or if you'll ever hear back (no matter what kind of history of response times the agent has).
It's unnecessary and it wastes your valuable time. If another agent makes an offer, you can come back and notify the first agent. In Denise's case, she ignored those, as well.
She's a very talented editor, among other things. She might have made a few mistakes going in--like trying to do too much and take too many folks on at once but that could have been smoothed out, I think, if that illness didn't took her for a loop in the middle of getting established...it appears to have fouled things up enough to put things out of whack--in so far as agenting with the Ethan Ellenberg Agency goes.
Time will tell, I'm sure...
I was told she is not longer taking clients and might very well no longer be an agent any more. Why they have her listed as still accepting submissions on their site I have no idea but just thought to pass this along to those might benefit from it. From what I was able to gather she might still work as a consultant/editor with the agency down the road but for now she is no longer in the agent business.
Of course, she might leave and form her own agency too--like others have done in the past but I don't know how well that would fly either given her current track record and having to start from scratch again, etc. Again, just an FYI for anyone who was looking for clarity on the matter, like I was.
I wish she'd have had someone monitoring her inbox in her absence. So many people waiting...
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