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Ms. Bethany Fulk

Holloway Literary

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Bethany Fulk

Holloway Literary

VA
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Website:
hollowayliteraryagency.com
Blog/Other:
www.bethany-writes.com
Twitter:
@bethanyfulk
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Genres
This agent is seeking the following genres:

Fiction

Middle Grade
Young Adult

Non-Fiction

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Tiffani Burkett
Valerie Norton
Author Comments
Comments by authors about this agent.
gcontelmo
02/08/2023 02:36 PM
Email Query: 9/23/2022
Partial Request: 11/14/2022
Form Rejection: 2/8/2023

87k YA fantasy
honeybeehorror
12/14/2022 09:03 AM
Sent: 7/9
Partial request: 8/1
Form rejection: 12/3
aidensio
11/14/2022 01:06 PM
Email query: 7/26/22
Partial request: 8/22/22
Form rejection: 11/14/22

Same exact form letter as they send for queries and sent by submissions editor (I interacted with two different ones during the process as well).

LGBT+ MG Fantasy
rmulvaney
10/25/2022 09:25 PM
@WBYS394 I received a full request today without nudging due to another offer.

6/16/22: Email Query
7/19/22: Partial Request
10/25/22: Full Request!

YA fantasy, 97k
WBYS394
10/18/2022 10:06 AM
Have any of the partial requests in the last 4 months turned into a full without nudging due to another offer?
Profile Update

Patrick (Admin)
10/13/2022 04:57 PM
Profile Update: Closed to queries. Thanks mariekaandsam
mariekaandsam
10/13/2022 12:51 PM
Although marked as open on QT, the website says she's closed until 1/2023.
christinaferko
10/13/2022 11:50 AM
08-04-22 Email Query
09-13-22 Partial Request! Yay!
10-13-22 Upgrade to a full request after nudging with an offer of rep from another agent


80k YA Psychological Thriller (with horror elements)
chelseambrown
10/03/2022 10:39 AM
EQ: 8/13/2022
60k YA spy adventure
first 15 pages (2.5 chapters)
ER: 9/27/2022 form

"Thank you for your submission.

Your work has been carefully reviewed by the agent you queried, and it has been determined that Holloway Literary will not be pursuing representation of your manuscript. We regret sending you this information in a form letter; however, due to the volume of emails we receive daily it is almost impossible to send customized letters to every author. Thank you again for thinking of Holloway Literary, and we wish you every success in your writing career."
bluelinnet
09/27/2022 06:39 PM
Email Query: August 15 (received auto-response. At present their query responses are estimated to take 6-8 weeks.)
Form R from submissions manager, Sept. 27

I see that she's made no offers on MG, and very few requests, at least based on these pages. YA is still of most interest to most agents, it seems, despite being, apparently, a harder sell these days.

MG Fantasy
EmRuBr
09/27/2022 01:07 PM
YA Fantasy
Query: 8/28/22
Form rejection 9/27
MTMPit
09/22/2022 03:06 AM
@christinaferko Thank you, and I really hope you're right.
christinaferko
09/19/2022 10:37 AM
@MTMPit I wouldn't write it off. From my experience Bethany Fulk and the Holloway team are good about replying. She requested a partial and then a full of my last ms also and I think it was a little past 5 months for the reply from my full. I think the Fall just might be a bit busier for some agents (summer vacation catch ups/kids going back to school/some agents reopen around then and get flooded/etc), so that might be why it could take longer than their usual stated timeframe. (Honestly, I think a lot of agents are tending to longer timeframes than their stated/previously had b/c it seems they're getting a lot more queries than even just from what it was a few years ago??) And if you nudged mostly with the comment of having minor edits, then I feel like most agents don't worry about edits unless they're significant. Anyway, it might not be about the length of your story and more about the volume of other queries/requests that's making it a bit outside her standard timeframe? I'd wait a bit longer before writing them off myself. Good luck and I hope you get a response soon.
MTMPit
09/19/2022 08:40 AM
I sent in a full request on 3/30/22 after getting a partial a month before and sending the query on 1/05/22 and still haven't heard back. They sent me two different emails with one saying response times for fulls were 3-4 months while the other said 4-5 months. I nudged them on 8/30/22 with a greeting and notification on a few minor edits I made, heard noting back. Should I write off this agent as ghosting me? I know agents are busy, but my story was rather short at 39k words, so I don't know why they haven't responded in 5 months. Tbh, even if I got a form rejection at this point, I'd still feel like it'd be a slap to the face.
skluci08
09/14/2022 07:47 AM
8/16/22 EQ
9/13/22 partial request!

84k ya contemporary fantasy
amcbradley
08/05/2022 09:36 AM
@christinaferko - I had this happen with another agency. I tried twice with no response, then waited a few weeks and tried again and finally got the response. Hope you're able to get through eventually!
christinaferko
08/05/2022 09:01 AM
Thanks @amcbradley I tried again but still no auto-response. I did the subj line and the email address correct so I dunno
amcbradley
08/05/2022 08:20 AM
@christinaferko - I got an auto-response when I submitted. I would re-submit if I were you with a note indicating that you didn't get the auto-reply.
christinaferko
08/04/2022 08:47 PM
Does the Holloway Submissions always do an auto response? I sent a query today for my newest manuscript but didn't get an auto response, so I wasn't sure.
christinaferko
08/04/2022 01:06 PM
12-3-21 : Email Query
12-29-21 : Partial Request
2-11-22: Full Request! (on my bday too!)
8-4-22: Pass

YA Fantasy 84k
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10/13/2022 - Closed to queries.
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