She has had my manuscript for nearly two months. I wish I could get a reply either way.

Query: 21 October 2025
Full request 2 HOURS LATER!
Rejection: 30 October 2025
99k rom com/women's fiction

Lovely rejection email below – obviously disappointed but hopeful:

Dear Elaine,


Thank you so much for reaching out and sending along the manuscript for THE BROKEN ENGAGEMENT CLUB, which we read with great interest.

This piece is certainly energetic and thoroughly captured our attention. Your story was well developed, and we especially loved rooting for Kathryn, among others in the huge cast of characters. After careful consideration, however, we have decided that we are not the appropriate agents for this project.

Fiction, as I am sure you know, is very subjective and one of the toughest things to sell in today’s market, so we must be selective in what we take on. Though your writing is excellent, we really must fall in love with a novel to properly represent it, and I’m sorry to say that just didn’t happen here.

Elaine, thank you again for the chance to review this material and I wish you all the best.

Best regards,

Jane Dystel

6/26/25- EQ
84k Literary Fiction
6/27/25- Full Request
9/28/25- polite nudge, received out of office message

Query with sample and synopsis-9/27/25
Full request 12 minutes later
Form rejection- 10/09

So she is reading again. Fingers crossed for everyone