EQ: 11-8-22

Historical Fiction
86K

EQ: 10/9/22 Historical Fiction 138k
FR: 10/13/22 "Thanks for thinking of me. I’m sorry that this doesn’t sound like the right project for me. I do appreciate the query."

Query 7.24.22- Historical Fiction 108K
Request for pages 8.8.22
9/19/22 Polite Rejection."It is a wonderful idea for a novel, but I never found myself engaged enough in the writing to ask to read more.
I’m sorry that this isn’t the right project for me.I do appreciate you thinking of me and wish you the best, Kathryn"

Thanks for thinking of me, [redacted], but I don’t handle fantasy—so this isn’t the right project for me. Although I have to admit that historical fantasy is seems like an intriguing genre. I do appreciate the query and wish you the best,
Kathryn

EQ 8/11/22
Memoir 89K
short, personalized response, email rejection, 8/23/22.

In it she said she was not taking any memoirs at the moment.

Queried 7/25/22
Partial request 8/822
Contemporary YA
57,000 words

Query - 7/12/22
Partial Request - 7/19/22
Brief Rejection - 8/8/22 (Cute premise but didn't connect enough to the characters)

YA romcom 82k

Submitted Query 07/10/22
Rejection Received: 07/11/22
Historical Fiction 81K

Appreciate the rapid response.

"Thanks for thinking of me, Peter. Sorry that this doesn’t sound like the right project for me.
I do appreciate the query."

Kathryn

Emailed Query (only): 6/28
Historical Fiction, 90K words
Spent the last few weeks completely overhauling my query, crossing fingers and toes :)
Email rejection: 6/29 - not a form letter...

Thanks for thinking of me, ******, but this doesn’t sound like the right project for me. I do appreciate the query.

Kathryn

A rejection came in 4 days; not unkind; not exactly a form letter. But if agents have decided to exclude specific genres from their considerations, they should update their "want lists" in QueryTracker and elsewhere, so writers don't struggle with spending so much time tailoring queries to their supposed tastes. To wit:

"Thanks for thinking of me, Tom, but this doesn’t sound like the right project for me. I’m not taking on any memoirs at the moment.
I do appreciate the query.
Kathryn"

Her list of wants includes memoir.

Queried 5/23/2022
Historical Fiction 80 K
Rejected, 5/25/2022

Queried 5/23/2022
Historical Mystery 86K
Rejection 5/25/22, form email
Thankful that she replied - so many don't

Submitted debut cozy 69.3K words
5/9/22 by email

Query sent: 2-22

Received out of office reply-back on 2-28

91k Mystery

Not taking on any memoirs at this time.