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Ms. Marcia Amsterdam

Marcia Amsterdam Agency

Ms. Marcia Amsterdam

Marcia Amsterdam Agency

41 West 82nd Street, Suite 9A

New York, NY 10024



AAR Member: No

Accepts Queries Via...

Snail-Mail: Yes

E-Mail: No

Online Form: No

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from Zooks3
Feb 07, 2018 8:55 pm


2/7/18 - Snail mail? What year is this?
from bostonwriter
Feb 07, 2018 1:56 pm


Mailed Query: 1/30/18
Rejected: 2/7/18 ("Thanks but not for us" written on my original query letter)

LGBT YA, 52k
from shadowconn
Nov 20, 2017 7:39 pm


can't find a viable submission EMAIL address. Maybe one of these days I'll create a snail mail list. Today is not that day.
from KristenH
May 23, 2017 4:11 pm


SQ 4/14/17 (requery Chain Reaction)
SR 5/22/17 (Passed--not right for her.) Will try her with Di later this summer.
from ktchenli
Feb 14, 2017 2:48 pm


Wow, does this agency operate in a cave? Doesn't even have a web site. Guess that makes them at the bottom of the query list.
from KristenH
May 28, 2016 1:32 pm


5/9/16, I sent Marcia Amsterdam my requery for Venom via snail mail. Today I've heard back from her with a pass--not for us. Five years ago, she asked for a request. I'll try her this summer with Chain Reaction.
from GoldenEagle
Feb 02, 2016 1:14 pm


Snail Mail Query 01/26/2016

Snail Mail Rejection received 02/01/2016

"Sorry Not for us" scrawled in green ink by a shaky hand at the top of the page of the returned query letter.
from writer_monkey
Jan 18, 2014 12:27 pm


I can live with an agent still preferring snail mail queries, but what company (highly exclusive or not) in this day in age doesn't have at least a basic website to refer to for more info? Especially when authors are expected to have one?

Oh well, I guess these guys go to the bottom of the list. And I suppose they can't blame anyone but themselves if their guidelines aren't strictly followed. X-/
from justindherd
Sep 16, 2013 9:13 pm


SQ: 09/05
SR: 09/16

Didn't even get a full page. Got mailed back my query with a slip of paper stating it wasn't what they wanted.

Adult Urban Fantasy
from SamanthaLane
Jul 02, 2013 5:21 pm


SQ: 6/18
SFR: 7/2 -> To Canada
Adult urban fantasy with romantic elements
from jjbrown1
Jun 10, 2013 8:40 pm


SQ 5/23
SR 6/1
YA Fantasy
from mandyschomas
Jan 23, 2013 12:47 pm


received stock slip of a paper as rejection on 1/22 as everyone else did. For the best, I think.
from KristenH
Jan 09, 2013 6:57 am


I know the feeling Mandy. Sounds like a plan. Go for it.
from mandyschomas
Jan 08, 2013 8:28 am


@angel

Thanks, friend! It's funny how lost I am without a website. ha.

I think I'm going to send her the first three chapters, refer to her note of an exclusive basis and just say that I've sent it out prior to receiving her note. If she can't look at it as a result, so be it.
from KristenH
Jan 08, 2013 6:32 am


Ok Mandy. Hmm. I thought it might help. GLA might be the way to go or Writers Market.

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