Q: 6/5/26
Contemporary Romance, 96k


@Waterbear & @eswtmon01, I have also seen with QueryTracker that the stats will show "full request" when it was, in fact, a partial request. I have had numerous partial requests through QT, but in the data explorer and the query timeline, mine shows as a full request. So the partials may still be a thing, but query tracker often doesn't differentiate.

Q: 2026July10

@Waterbear — Email statistics have to be taken with a huge pinch of salt, which is why I prefer it when an agent uses QueryTracker. The data is generally more accurate and far more useful to a querying author.

A substantial drop in the full-request rate when an agent moves from self-reported email data to QueryTracker is quite common. It is human nature to log the good news and not bother recording the bad:

The full-request rate fell from 5.43% to 1.42% — a 74% reduction, or nearly 4x
The overall request rate fell from 8.22% to 1.42% — an 83% reduction, or nearly 6x
Partial requests fell from 20 out of 718 recorded outcomes to 0 out of 636.

What is more interesting here, and much less common, is that the partial requests have vanished completely. That could be a coincidence, with the agent deciding at the same time that partials were no longer useful and moving directly to full requests. Alternatively, some of the earlier partial requests may have been misreported, misunderstood or exaggerated by the email claimants.

Based on the email figures, this agent appeared to have a remarkable request rate of between 5.43% and 8.22%, depending on whether partials were included. That would make them look as though they were actively building their list and consuming manuscripts the way I consume pastéis de nata.

A lot of querying authors looking only at those email statistics may therefore have formed an impression of the agent that was not actually accurate. A 1.42% request rate is not poor; it sits within the fairly typical 1–2% range we often see. It simply paints a very different picture from the older self-reported figures.

Q: 5/6/26
Form Rej: 7/10/26

88k adult BIPOC PNR

@Waterbear... yes. She made the switch about two months ago.