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Ms. Whitney Ross
Irene Goodman Literary Agency
27 W. 24 Street, Suite 700B
New York, NY 10010
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Website: www.irenegoodman.com/
Blog: whitneyrossliterary.com/
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ER: 6/25
Science Fiction, 119K
ER: 6/25/21
YA Urban Fantasy 108k
Form Rejection
Thank you for your query! I so appreciate the opportunity to review your work, but I’m afraid that it’s just not the best fit for my list at this time. Don’t be discouraged, though. Publishing is a marathon, not a sprint, and you just need one person to catch that shared vision. Best of luck to you!
Sci fi romance, 124k words
Got back to me within a day on June 25, 2021, rejection form letter
FormR: 6/24/21
108K Adult Fantasy
ER: 6/21/21 Form rejection
ER 06/17/21
SciFi/YA 65k
"Thank you for your query! I so appreciate the opportunity to review your work, but I’m afraid that it’s just not the best fit for my list at this time. Don’t be discouraged, though. Publishing is a marathon, not a sprint, and you just need one person to catch that shared vision. Best of luck to you!"
ER: 06/03/2021
Science fiction, 88k words.
Email message was kind and encouraging.
Full Req + synopsis: 06/11/20
Personal Rej: 06/16/21
Sent same day
Full request + synopsis: 10/28/19
Full sent: 10/28/19
Reply of receipt: 11 minutes later!
Nudge: 03/04/20
Personal Rejection, with request to send any further material: 01/06/21
YA Fantasy, 103k
I appreciate her quick turn-around for requests! I've noticed reading on here, she takes a few months to respond to fulls. Good to know, thanks all!
Full Req: 23 APR 2020
Nudge: 23 SEP 2020
CNR: 30 SEP 2020
Rejection: 07 June 2021. Three sentences worth, with one apologizing for taking so long. (I guess she missed my announcement in Publishers Market Place in March ;)
YA gothic mystery 83K
ER:6/8/21
ER 5/25/21 Form rejection
Full request: 12/16
Pulled MS to work on non exclusive R&R: 2/5/20
Resubmitted revised MS: 7/20/20
Form rejection: 6/7/21
Eleven whole months after sending my revised MS, I have *finally* received a form rejection. And I mean a genuine form, absolutely no mention of the 11 months she forgot about my submission. I'd written this off 6 months ago and honestly I would have preferred she simply ghost me. If you take THAT long, it's just my opinion maybe you should mention it.
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