Form Query: 11/18/19
Personalized Rejection: 11/20/19
I have nothing but the utmost respect for this agent. She is a true advocate for writers and she cares for our well-being. I can tell she is very passionate about her job, and most of all I love that she is "up-front" and tough. This is an agent who won't have any problem whatsoever fighting for the best terms for her writers.

Adult Own Voices Contemporary Romance

EQ 6/11
ER: 9/25
Form

I'm sorry, but your project doesn't feel like a perfect fit for me at this time, and so I will have to pass. Please remember that each agent's list is a highly subjective and constantly evolving thing, and the decision to not add an author or project to that list at any given time is not necessarily a reflection on the author's promise or the quality of the work.

EQ: 6/4/19
ER: 9/25/19
Form letter

EQ: 7/20/19
automatic response with link to updates
No response 9/21


Memoir, 70,000

EQ: 4/29/19 (#DVPit like)
FR: 8/1/19

Was pleasantly surprised by the full request 3 months after sending the query; I'd been treating it like a rejection.

Contemporary romance, 64k

Profile Update: Closed to queries.

EQ: 05/23/19
FR: 08/02/19, sent same day

YA Romance, 82k

EQ:5/10/19
Women's Lit 65K words

8/1/19 Form ER citing "not a perfect fit" with no other feedback

OQ: 07/12/2019 Hist Fic 76k

OQ: 07/12/2019 Hist Fic 76k

EQ: 3/8/19 (online form) (PitMad request)
Full Request: 3/27/19
ER: 6/29/19. It was a very nice rejection with some nice things to say. Ultimately, it came down to not fitting strongly enough in the genres she specializes in.

108K Adult Historical Fiction

EQ: 6/30/19

Historical Romance 92K

EQ: 3.9.19 (online form)
ER: 4.6.19
Rom-Com 74K

@TheNixie,
The querying process can be quite frustrating and downright stressful. Instead of admonishing and/or criticizing fellow QT members in a public forum, consider helping each other through this process in a positive way. At the very least, if you must say something negative in response to @rtito3’s comment below, perhaps it may have been better directed via PM.

@rtito3 Ms. Park represents both fiction and non-fiction. The things you are complaining about are the elements of a book proposal - the common format for submitting non-fiction. Further, if an author feels their MS is prepared to enter the competition for pro publishing, they are things which an author should know about their proposed book and be prepared to explain. Publishing is a business; that information is the "business case" for choosing your book from the mass of submissions. If you are not prepared to make the case for why a publisher should take a business risk on your book, "PLEASE do not waste agents' time like this!" :)

No, it's *not enough to write your MS and a great query. Yes, it's a lot of work to make yourself stand out sufficiently from the crowd to merit an agent's attention. And more work still to then be one of the small percentage of *those that earns a publisher's attention. If you find that too onerous, consider KDP. Where you will find that you are once again responsible for knowing exactly the same information, not to make a business case, but to manage the marketing and placement of your book - which is the same reason a publisher will want that info. Which is the same reason an agent does. And for all those reasons, it behooves us to know that info and be able to articulate it.

Writing is an art. Publishing is a business.