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Mr. Kevin O'Connor
O'Connor Literary Agency
New York, NY
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Website: oconnor.nyc
Twitter: OConnor_Lit
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Neutral Pass: 28 Aug 22
PB
EQ: 4/28
ER: 4/30
Personalized rejection that client is working on book with somewhat similar premise and wouldn't be fair to rep both. Very kind and encouraging.
Full request (within two hours!!)
Rejection: 01/23
He said he wanted my main character to be more likable at the beginning. He also said he wasn't much of a scifi guy and only requested my full because my query was good. Why request something you know you're not going to like? I'm pretty disappointed.
MG scifi, 60k
ER: 11/13 (Saturday)
As others have noted, sent an extremely kind rejection -- said he liked what I was doing but due to his lack of passion for the subject area my novel covered, he wouldn't be able to give as good of notes as he would've wanted. Breath of fresh air for a rejection in the querying trenches :)
FR: 1/6/20
Request for Revise and Resubmit with fantastic notes: 1/19/20
Resubmit: 5/25/20
Offer: 5/28/20
This is the nicest guy ever. Seriously. He's super fast in his replies and very kind. I queried a MG manuscript with him about a year ago, and I decided to try him again with a new project just because he impressed me in his response to the last one. He has been so generous and gracious, and his notes really helped me make my ms so much stronger!
ER: 6/25/21
MG Fantasy
His rejections are so kind and helpful that it takes away the disappointment. He is very encouraging.
ER: 3/24
As others have said Kevin takes the time to send helpful rejections. Not necessarily specifics - change this, change that - but it sounded like he actually read the materials and send recommendations crafted in my general direction. I appreciated the time and effort he put into it.
MG-Contemporary
A very kind rejection.
I feel that if you get Kevin for an agent, you'll be lucky indeed!
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