12/31/22 Queried
1/4/23 Rejected by Marie Lamba

15k Chapter Book

Queried 8/2/22 90K women's/upmarket fiction

Thank you to Clayton and wirdschonklappen (viel Glueck to wirdschonklappen!)

This is apparently not the first time JDC has pulled this sort of crap: https://twitter.com/khopkinswrites/status/1491828219816943625

An agent at this agency dropped ten authors on one day, and the agency as a whole acted extremely unprofessional. If you want to query anyone at this agency, please check out this thread.

https://twitter.com/AthenaBliss4/status/1491549521678979074

Out of the office until Feb 1, 2022.

query - 12/1/21

WF 91k

EQ: 10/28/21, Military Thriller: 125K

What I'm looking for

Adult Fiction: I'm passionate about literary fiction with a unique, beautiful voice, but I also enjoy commercial fiction, women's fiction (no bodice-rippers, please), chick-lit, mysteries, suspense, thrillers - in general, I'm open to manuscripts in every category. I'm a sucker for underdog and outsider stories, manuscripts about the triumph of the human spirit. I want to read manuscripts that will keep me up at night, make me feel something, change the world in some way. Even if it's a fun, commercial story, at its heart should be a wonderful protagonist from whom I can learn.



Children's Fiction: I love all kinds of picture books - soft, quirky, funny - rhyming or non-rhyming. For middle-grade and YA fiction, I'm looking for beautiful, distinctive voices, above all, and character-driven stories. I'm open to every genre under the sun, but I'm not a huge science fiction fan.



Non-fiction: Being a former dancer/actress, I love anything and everything Hollywood, especially celebrity bios/autobiographies. I'm always looking for beautifully written memoirs about people who have overcome incredible odds, books about the arts and performing arts, behind-the-scenes-type books, and books about popular culture. I am passionate about books that empower people to live their best lives, whether it's a great health or exercise book or a spiritual-type (think Eckhart Tolle or Deepak Chopra) book, and self-help books of all kinds. I am particularly open to books for the GLBTQ audience and, in general, any underdog/outsider stories. I'd love to see just about any well-written book on any topic; if you're in doubt, just query me.

CNR 113 days

EQ: 07-26-21

LGBTQIA+ Cont. Fiction, 99K

EQ: 3/6/21
CNR: 7/15/21

EQ:6/13/21

Queried PICTURE BOOK on 6/11/21

@Cherylking From the submission guidelines (checked 2/22/21) - Please query one JDLA agent at a time. If you receive a pass from that agent, you may query another, but we request that you identify the JDLA agent you have already queried.

And a couple days ago she fired one of her agents based on an anonymous tip that the agent was using Parler and Gab. Perhaps the agent in question was posting hateful comments, or maybe she was posting pictures of kittens, I don't know. JDC's Twitter account is closed to non-followers, probably to avoid accusations that she's engaging in McCarthyism. I don't know all the facts, just reporting what I've read. https://www.newsweek.com/agent-fired-literary-agency-using-parler-gab-1564687

33 day CNR

This agency's website doesn't say -- if one agent passes, can we submit to another agent here?

sent a query to Ms DeChiara on 8/1. On 8/3 she passed it to Stephen Fraser who instantly requested the full.

EQ: 5/4/20
CNR: 7/15/20