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Ms. Dara Kaye

Ross Yoon Literary Agency

Ms. Dara Kaye

Ross Yoon Literary Agency

1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 500

Washington, DC 20009



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Website: www.rossyoon.com/

Blog: www.darakaye.com/

Twitter: darakaye

AAR Member: No

Accepts Queries Via...

Snail-Mail: No

E-Mail: Yes

Online Form: No

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from jdbe27270618
Jun 09, 2020 2:09 pm


EQ: 03/27/2020
ER (form, from Grace): 06/09/2020

YA Fantasy
from Nadler369
Feb 06, 2020 5:48 pm


EQ: 2/5/20
ER: 2/6/20
Fantasy, 125k
from mawidmaier
Jan 31, 2020 5:04 pm


EQ: 1/30/2020
ER: 1/31/2020 (fastest rejection yet!)

170K adult fantasy
from Hawkwind
Jan 02, 2020 1:56 pm


EQ 12/26/19 Supernatural thriller
73K
from xany76
Dec 19, 2019 5:08 pm


EQ: 12/13/19
ER: 12/16/19

125k Fantasy
from alibryn
Nov 08, 2019 11:01 am


She requested 50 pages during #DVPit last year (10/2018) and after 3 nudges throughout the year and a reply from her (in December 2018) that she was looking forward to reading, I've heard nothing else. Closing this one out. A bit frustrated.
from Patrick (admin)
Nov 06, 2019 10:37 am


Profile Update: Genres updated.
from lonna70
Sep 14, 2019 5:45 am


@Rose_Hill, and anyone else who's curious -- you can find her SFF fiction query guidelines at her website: http://www.darakaye.com/contact.html
Instead of sending fiction for her directly to the agency, you send to her email that's listed there. But send non-fiction to the agency. Also, I recently queried her and received an automatic reply that she's out on maternity leave until the end of November, fyi.
from Rose_Hill
Sep 13, 2019 9:24 pm


EQ: 4/30/2019
CNR 8/29/2019

145k adult fantasy

I know she is looking for fiction, but I could only find guidelines on the agency website for non-fiction, so I was not 100% certain of the guidelines. I'll update here if I get any feedback.
from jskylie
May 31, 2019 1:22 pm


Website says its not looking for fiction.
from Pyrrhonist
Apr 12, 2019 2:31 pm


An unusually thoughtful rejection letter:

I hope this email finds you well. Dara asked me to reach out to you. Thank you so much for submitting "How to Be a Pyrrhonist" to Ross Yoon Agency. This is a promising project - you've done a great job of taking a concept that would be considered foreign and quite complicated to most and making it accessible in a way that does not come off as condescending or pandering - but I'm so sorry to say that it's not a match for any of the agents on our team. We wish you the very best of luck in your search for an agent and worthy book deal.

Yours,

Cara Jackson
Ross Yoon Agency
from PSbookish
Feb 20, 2019 12:18 pm


2/15/2019 I sent a query. I will update this if I get a reply.

2/20/2019. I got a rejection letter.
from CombatKatie
Feb 10, 2019 9:49 pm


EQ: 2/10/19

A few hours later, I actually got a confirmation of receipt reply from Dara about just my query and sample material, which was a really pleasant surprise!
from aimeels9
Jan 11, 2019 8:35 am


EQ: 11/28/18
ER: 1/10/19

Very nice rejection from her assistant. So nice, in fact, that I didn't know it was a rejection until sentence three. But I'll take the kind words! :)
from aalogan
Nov 18, 2018 8:28 pm


EQ 9/21/18 70k adult fairy tale retelling
CNR 11/18/18

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