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Ms. Catherine Drayton
InkWell Management
521 Fifth Avenue, 26th Floor
New York, NY 10175
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Website: www.inkwellmanagement.com
Twitter: cjdrayton
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PR--first 50-- 06/21 (from Claire, Catherine's assistant)
YA Fantasy 81K
(btw, I did use the general website submissions email address, but directed it in the subject line to "Catherine Drayton." Worked fine for me)
PR: May 31, 2017
ER: June 7, 2017
YA Speculative
Kind, personal rejection from Catherine's assistant, Claire. They seem like they would have been a great team to work with!
Haven't received a reply yet; could it be because I used submissions@inkwellmanagement.com (as listed on their website) instead of catherine@inkwellmanagement.com (as listed on Query Tracker)?
Adult 72K Upmarket Commercial Fiction/Mystery/Suspense/Magical Realism
Form rejection from assistant 4/17
FR 10/07!
ER 10/18 from Claire, with invitation to submit further work.
EDIT: I queried my new project (#ownvoices contemp YA) on 03/06, got a partial request from Claire 03/07, which got upgraded to a full 03/08.
R&R 03/22
FR: 3/19
ER: 3/23
She typed less than half of my manuscript title into the rejection. Along with a single sentence saying, "Unfortunately, it isn't for me." Before, when I sent her material, at least she was kind enough to offer an explanation for rejecting it. She must've REALLY hated this one!
Update: She emailed me back and kindly said that it's difficult to sell a book with a certain element that mine contains. Feeling slightly better now!
YA Contemporary
FR 3/6
R&R 3/20
Similarly to leightongrey, Catherine's assistant Claire gave me some feedback and invited me to submitted a revised draft or any future work. Definitely plan on making some changes and sending a new version their way!
YA Fantasy 80K
PR from assistant 1/9/17
ER/R&R 1/25/17 with an invitation to submit new drafts/work in the future
On 3/15 I asked if they were still interested in taking a second look at another draft, and Claire said yes. :) Sent the same night.
R from assistant Claire: 3/13/17
YA Contemporary 76k
ER: 3/1/17 - Polite, personalized form rejection.
YA Action/Drama 107k
FR: 2/22
MG fiction
ER 2/22/17 (form)
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