EQ: Via form 5th Jan 2021
FR: Same Day
Submitted Request: Same Day
Confirmation Response: Same Day- saying she plans to read and get back in 3 weeks. Asked me to follow up if she has not been in touch by then. Lovely most encouraging response. Dream agent for a lot of reasons. Fingers crossed.
Requested an R & R- March 5th. Awaiting notes.
Provided very detailed, insightful, encouraging feedback - March 24
Intend to revise along these lines
LIT Fiction 84000 words
Update- received an email September 14 checking on my work and encouraging me!!! This has pushed me to completing my revision. I’ll be sending through soon. Fingers crossed.

Submitted form October 14
Standard rejection October 18
Scifi 76k
"Thank you for querying. I appreciate the opportunity to consider your work, but I am sorry to say that it is not quite a match for my list. I'm wishing you the best in your search for representation.

All best,

Rach Crawford"

Pretty fast Queried 10/04/2021

Rejection 10/08/2021

Fantasy 95,402

Profile Update: Open to queries.

FQ: 7/12/2021
FR: 9/13/2021

have to admit, i got hopeful... oh well.

Rejection stating she does NOT represent graphic work. Just an update for the "genre" section. Good luck guys

Form submitted July 6
Standard rejection letter July 18
Scifi 65k
"Thank you for querying. I appreciate the opportunity to consider your work, but I am sorry to say that it is not quite a match for my list. I'm wishing you the best in your search for representation."

Profile Update: Closed to queries.

Thanks Toatos

From her query manager form: 'Thanks for your interest in querying me. As of July 15, 2021 I am closed to queries. I'll reopen when I'm caught up, which I estimate will take about a month.'

Rejected in a matter of minutes (literary/historical, 75k) on a Sunday night. Seems strange, but I guess that's how she operates. Supreme efficiency is better than being left hanging, I suppose!

Patrick,
Thanks for the information. My experience was a while back and I had not comprehended that Ms. Crawford is using Query Tracker form, but rather assumed it to be an in-house submission form of the agency. Anyhow, thanks for the clarity on that aspect of it. Still, the single most frustrating thing in this endeavor is not knowing whether one's work (sample) was read by anyone. Better to know my writing is terrible than to know nothing at all. Oh, well.

@MCSmith

It's definitely an odd one. I wonder if there was something missing from my submission which put it on the ignore pile, but being a QueryManager form, it's hard to mess that up.

MCSmith,
QueryManager does not have an automatic reject feature, so she must have been working late.

@pwalford:
I sent a query very late on a Friday afternoon which was rejected in less than three hours. Don't know, but I believe there must be triggers in the submission form that automatically reject. Either that or folks work late on Fridays.

Odd that some queries get answered and others submitted the same day don't. Wonder what the criteria are for not replying? (only because her response rate is over 50%)