Submitted Query on 9/13/22
Received Rejection on 9/26/22

I appreciated the quick response.

Was told the Holloway word count requirement for a thriller is 80,000-90,000 words. Mine was 67,000. They added that if I do decide to increase the story word count that I could feel free to query again at that time.

EQ: 09/20/22

Contemporary Romance

EQ: 27 July 2022

YA Sci-Fi 72K

30 days after submitting, no response yet but also receiving marketing emails for online classes.

90 after querying, I never got a rejection, BUT I was added to their email list marketing their online classes. Not a fan of that!

#LovePit request: 17th May 2022
EQ: 31st May 2022
90K Adult contemporary romance

5/25/2022 Got a full request while on my honeymoon (glad I brought my computer!) for my 69,000 cozy mystery.
Original query was 12/6/2021, and request for partial was 1/21/2022.

EQ sent 28 APR 2022
Mystery 77k

EQ: 1/3/22 Adult Romcom
CNR: 4/13/22

12 day form rejection on cont romance from submission coordinator Lauren Albury.

Thank you for your submission,

"Your work has been carefully reviewed, and it has been determined that Holloway Literary will not be pursuing representation. We regret sending you this information in a form letter; however, due to the volume of emails we receive daily it is almost impossible to send customized letters to every author. Thank you again for thinking of Holloway Literary, and we wish you every success in your writing career.

Best,"

ghosting on a full is just plain trash. Why do agents do this?

Ghosted on a full requested after a zoom pitch

I hope everything goes well for you, tghuguenin. I was emailed an offer of representation but didn't formally request the electronic signature form of the Author-Agency Agreement in time. So I'm rewriting a bit and resubmitting to other agents. Lesson learned the hard way.

1/7 after reading the full, nikki emailed with interest in repping it & wants to hear more about my other books

1/11 - after sending in pitches for other manuscripts, she requested me to send fulls of everything i had, and scheduled a zoom call for 1/20

1/31 - after reviewing, i've now signed the author-agent agreement. first time in my life i'm an agented author!

No response from Nikki or her assistant Lauren Albury. Although I fumbled the Offer of Rep, it seems more likely now that we'll get another Offer. Somebody liked our book at that agency enough to make the Offer in the first place. Anyway I've been thinking about adding a couple of pages on an intriguing subject.