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Website: www.talcottnotch.net/
Blog: paulamunier.com/
Twitter: PaulaSMunier
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I accepted and Paula is now my agent.
85K adult dystopian
ER 3/2/20 (Passed with positive feedback to have it more psychological than procedural, but not good fit)
7/31/2019 ER - Sent from Tia - We’ve read your material with interest, but we have ultimately decided to pass on this project.
You are a talented storyteller. That said, we're afraid we don’t think we could sell the manuscript as it now stands. We don’t think that it’s ready to shop, at least not for us.
There is a level of craft that is missing here. You're about 75 percent there. Which far exceeds most of the material we see. But publishers are looking for work that is 95 percent there. So we can only take on projects that are 90 percent, and help take them to that 95 percent level.
What this boils down to is an attention to detail in terms of point of view, tone, dialogue, setting, and sentence quality. This is that final polish, polish, polish that makes all the difference.
We wish we had better news for you. We have a full complement of writers right now, so we are only taking on projects that require little to no revision.
Again, you are a talented writer, and as you work on your craft and polish, polish, polish you are bound to succeed.
Thank you again for your submission and we wish you the best of luck in finding representation in the future.
ER 11/13/19 (Personalized rejection via Tia--said I'm a good storyteller and they only accepting mss that need 90-95% revision when mine is 75%. Made comments on voice, setting, description, tone, pov. Different rejection I got from Gina who asked for a full ms a year ago and declined in January--same as below though.)
ER: 13 November 2019
YA contemporary/historical 92,000 words
Form from Tia Mele
....You are a talented storyteller. That said, we're afraid we don’t think we could sell the manuscript as it now stands. We don’t think that it’s ready to shop, at least not for us.
There is a level of craft that is missing here. You're about 75 percent there. Which far exceeds most of the material we see. But publishers are looking for work that is 95 percent there. So we can only take on projects that are 90 percent, and help take them to that 95 percent level.
What this boils down to is an attention to detail in terms of point of view, tone, dialogue, setting, and sentence quality. This is that final polish, polish, polish that makes all the difference.....[etc, etc]
NA/Adult Fantasy 105k
ER: 11/5/19
historical fantasy 175K
NA Fantasy Saga 115k
Confirmation of receipt (out of office reply): 5/4/19
ER: 9/12/19 (kind form letter from Tia Mele)
ER form from Tia Mele: 9/10/2019
“We’ve read your material with interest, but we have ultimately decided to pass on this project.
You are a talented storyteller. That said, we're afraid we don’t think we could sell the manuscript as it now stands. We don’t think that it’s ready to shop, at least not for us.
There is a level of craft that is missing here. You're about 75 percent there. Which far exceeds most of the material we see. But publishers are looking for work that is 95 percent there. So we can only take on projects that are 90 percent, and help take them to that 95 percent level.
What this boils down to is an attention to detail in terms of point of view, tone, dialogue, setting, and sentence quality. This is that final polish, polish, polish that makes all the difference.
We wish we had better news for you. We have a full complement of writers right now, so we are only taking on projects that require little to no revision.
Again, you are a talented writer, and as you work on your craft and polish, polish, polish you are bound to succeed.
Thank you again for your submission and we wish you the best of luck in finding representation in the future.”
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