Q: 6/12
48,155 word speculative historical fiction

form rej. @ 40 days

A similar thing happened to me with another agent. I queried her just before she switched to QM - 90 minutes before the comment by Patrick announcing the change. I went ahead and submitted again via QM even though the email was in the system. I'll note that the number of email queries listed in that agent's report is LOWER than the number was when I submitted my query, which I interpret to mean that mine and a few others somehow got deleted, at least as far as the count in the system goes. I recommend you resubmit via QM, too.

I queried by e-mail on 4/22, seemingly hours before she switched to QM. What are the chances she'll read the e-mail?

I wasted a lot of time filling out this agent's form to the required specifications, only to get this frustrating message when I clicked on SUBMIT QUERY on the QueryManager submission form:

Query Not Accepted

"Sorry, your specified word count of 110,000 words is larger than the accepted standard for the genre stated.
Before your query can be submitted, please edit your book to reduce the word count so it is below 100,000 words."
*** My novel is 110,000 words. It is common for Literary Fiction to exceed 100,000 words, 130,000 or more.
I don't mind if an agent decides on a lower limit, but I do mind not knowing that up front. It's frustrating, not learning about that limit until AFTER tailoring everything to be exactly what they asked for, then getting my submission abruptly barred. They never stated a limit of 100,000 words in the Submission Guidelines on their web page or in the QueryManager form.