don't see fiction on website: Howard specializes in narrative nonfiction, history, memoir, science, current events, politics, and popular culture.

Submitted 89K Military/Medical Memoir 4/20/22
I closed the query. No response after 6 weeks

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CNR @ 76 days.

CNR 103 days.
No response to nudge.

Profile Update: Genres updated.

EQ Memoir 9/1
ER 9/8 - Form email rejection

EQ 12/7/15
ER 12/12/15

"The editors at major NYC houses increasingly insist on authors with national media platforms and pre-existing audiences in the tens or hundreds of thousands—we just don’t think anyone we work with on a regular basis will bite."

Writing/Women's Issues 50K

Profile Update: Open to queries.

EQ: 9/9/15

history / narrative nonfiction

They DO accept email queries. It's right on their contact page. submissions@rossyoon.com. So I submitted!

same day rejection, even while closed--no unsolicited queries

Closed to queries.

(Thanks janetsunderland)

Not accepting unsolicited queries: 8/17/11.

I always appreciate when an agent takes the time to personalize a rejection. They certainly don't have to do that.

In this instance, Jennifer Manguera Literary Manager with Ross Yoon, wrote in part, "Thanks so much for giving us a chance to take a look at (your project). We found (it) to be a promising work—one into which you obviously poured your heart."

The parenthesis are mine.

It was also a one-day turnaround to an e-mail query. Still a rejection, yes, but one that gives me hope.

On 5/30, I queried Howard. Today I've heard back. Same response from Gail: only taking on nonfiction and some fiction from their authors. I might put this agency on hold later this year.