Agree with @bparrigin, and it's especially nice for those of us without a premium subscription to help get a sense of things!

I appreciate people posting form rejection dates. It's another data point on how long agents take to get back to writers and when they are actively reading. Please keep posting your dates!

@CVhoar - Honestly, if your query read like your comment, I would've rejected it too.

Another bit of friendly advice from one writer to another: agents can see these comments if they want to, and being angry or bitter or saying spiteful things never helped anyone. Yes, the competition in traditional publishing is steep. The competition for an agent's attention is steep. It's called the "query trenches" for a reason. You have to stay positive and persevere, and just because one agent didn't like your book, doesn't mean that no agent will.

Her genre list looks like a list I would make if I had to name my top favorite bands. Nearly everything. 56 Days here on mine. Mine is an epic military si-fi space opera (~103,000 words in book 1, ~96,000 words in book 2, ~90,000 in book 3) which pays homage to the Warhammer universe. They have always been one of my favorites. Any Warhammer, and at the other end of the spectrum is perhaps, Diablo and their lore-based books. I'm writing at least an 8 part series, each main faction starting out with their own book. It's grim dark horror, not so much as brutally depicted. It gets depicted as tragedy. There are laughs, favorites, profound moments, military tactics and battles... two worlds of peoples', and only while anyone but the Dark Kin would claim that is was a war. The Dark Kin (antagonists) who live for eternity, do not think anything truly worth using the name for. They call it housekeeping. We call them devils. Coincidentally, the upcoming Warhammer series could be the perfect time to launch a company's own franchise; our Marvel to their DC or whichever way you would put it. I created an entire universe ruled by The Peace of the Undying King who resides on Old Earth; which is here. stocked it with good guys, bad guys, and there are only Easter Eggs for 40k lovers out there. After I get sick of the fun the of developmental editing and reading, Word has a nice voice feature, mostly because it's free. I just learned that late last year. I've been doing it the hard way so long, I do most of my copy-editing with half of my actual readings (I proofread more with my internal monologue (so-to-speak), than with my eyes. The feels, is everything described with enough detail, does it perform like something at least near what you were expecting? That is HUGE among food critics. Maybe, they don't need you to hit ALL the emotional notes (I try to, that's just my style)? They want to get what you described, that's what drew them in. They are just another horny fraud doing minimum effort for subpar work. You should be able to actively describe your "dish" present them with a warm beverage offered up with an apology. It does a thing to people which gives them no choice to come back. They see your restaurant with a free appetizer on it every time they see the coupon. It almost always at least gives you a second chance to wow them. As a writer, what I do is just learn as many genres as I can. It's a second chance at a different style. I hate raw tomatoes, but I'll eat them cooked anyway shape or form. Unless they just don't like my style and cadence and speech pattern, "The Voice of the Book" if you will... I like metaphors, and that can confuse some if they don't see the comparison, but I'm careful about that kind of thing. For example, here is one from a book that I'm writing, Hunter S. Thompson style, about a traveling journalist who is assigned to cover a race. But, this is 1972, and his bosses are sending him to cover the Baja Race. Of course, he goes, he craves the excitement and the adventure that he hasn't been getting the whole time. After the rest of the trip had mostly been a disaster, he doesn't realize how lucky he had been that he met his new friend. He only realizes after his near death experience, that the journey WAS about having an adventure, but the best part of the trip was with the new friends he had made. Btw, I've noticed something. There is room for 5000 words on this page, right. So, the only crap I ever see from writers is stuff like this:
Q: 7/7/2026 Historical/magical realism 100k
Calling a CNR (but will update if changes) at shy of 70 days from original query.
R: At 107 days... AFTER you just said "will update if changes". 👌nobody cares if the agent rejected your book. Do any of you care to read form request date, denied. You obviously are not an editor (person who responded before i was done typing). I said this is an example of what I always see. Nothing "helpful" in the slightest. Just them letting the world know their book was passed on. Also, Ms. McClure DID tell her to leave it and she may get back to it in the future, which is widely popular. Maybe, they weren't ready for a 100,000 word fantasy because they just read one. Maybe, they have 1000 potential clients ahead of you. Form rejection does not mean to retract your query. Especially, in this case. I can't believe you even asked me that. You probably write non-fiction that basically tells itself, and you barf the words onto the keyboard.

Q: 7/7/2026 Historical/magical realism 100k
Calling a CNR (but will update if changes) at shy of 70 days from original query.
R: At 107 days...