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Ms. Gemma Cooper
The Bent Agency
Chicago
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Website: thebentagency.com
Twitter: gemma_cooper
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Please paste the first 10 pages of your manuscript under your query. I always read pages. I accept submissions from authors around the world, and have lived and worked in New York, London and now Chicago. I have a global approach to agenting.Agent Reports.
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FR: 4/24/2019
7/8/2019: Personalized rejection
MG mystery 51K
FR: 05/02/19
MG fantasy, 55k
Fingers crossed!!!
ER: 7/3/19 Personalized rejection.
ER: 5/30/19
Form rejection. I'm thankful for any reply. It proves that I'm sending my work out into the world.
MG Fantasy 53k
ER, form: 05/24/19
YA Romance, 82k
Immediately got an auto-reply...LOVE THAT. I wish all agents did that! :)
ER: 5/3/2019
Appreciate the promptness. :)
FR: 2/5/19
MG Sci-Fi 55K.
Really hope this one is successful! I was so excited when she opened up for queries again because I had seen her bio and Twitter before back when she was closed and really liked her.
Update: 4/21/2019. Personalized email rejection. She listed some things she enjoyed about my writing and said she enjoyed reading my story but not enough to reread it over and over again like she would have to if she was my agent and how it was a personal taste issue. I’m disappointed but it was a kind letter and it was very nice of her to take the time to write it.
ER: 4/6/19 (form)
120K YA fiction
ER: 1/23/19
MG Mystery
Less than 24hrs, ouch.
ER: 02.11.2019 Form Letter
MG sci-fi 79,000
ER: 1/31/19
ER: 2/5/2019
MG Fantasy (46,000 words)
ER 2/3/19
ER 1/22/19
Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to consider your project. I carefully read and consider each submission I receive, and I'm sorry to say that yours is not quite right for me.
Agenting is subjective, and while I couldn't take on your project, another agent may well feel differently. I wish you the very best of luck with your writing in the future and thank you for thinking of me.
Warm wishes,
(Received immediate receipt of query notice. If no response in 4 weeks, resubmit.)
ER: 1/14/19
57,000 MG Contemporary Supernatural Mystery
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