E-mail query: 23rd December 2022
E-mailed Ms. Ritchie's assistant Harmony Leung that an agent's requested my full: 9th January 2023
Form rejection: 17th January 2023
89K Adult contemporary Romance

Form Rejection 20/09/22
Women's fiction 82,000

Form Query: 7/13/22
Form Rejection: 8/11/22
Historical Fiction, 104,000 words.

FQ: 07/04/22
Commercial Women's Historical Fiction, 99,000 words
Nudge due to FR: 07/14/22
07/22/22 Quasi-form rejection. She referred to a prologue that I didn't have.

Form query: 05/13/22
Nudged with offer: 05/24/22
Kind, personalized rejection: 05/30/22

Adult Rom-Com, 75k words

Thank you for choosing to submit The Illustrator's Daughter to Rebecca Ritchie at A.M. Heath

We aim to respond to all queries promptly. If you don’t hear back from us within 6 weeks of sending your submission, please email the following:

jessica.lee@amheath.com if you submitted to Victoria Hobbs or Euan Thorneycroft
harmony.leung@amheath.com if you submitted to Oli Munson, Julia Churchill or Rebecca Ritchie
florence.rees@amheath.com if you submitted to Bill Hamilton or Florence Rees
If other agents have requested to read the full manuscript or made you an offer of representation please do let us know.

We look forward to reading!

EQ: 9th January 2022
ER: 17th January 2022

Romcom, 83K

Similar to below - response was from Rebecca and it felt somewhat personalised (referenced my premise being 'fun and commercial' but said she didn't click with my writing in the way she wanted to). A really kind message overall!

FQ: 11/16/21
FR: 12/14/21
Rejection email from 'Submissions' but signed by Rebecca. The message is kind and sounds personal: 'the premise is intriguing' but she didn't 'click with it'.

FQ: 10/17/21 Women Fiction 55k
FR: 10/27/21 Rejection letter from agency, not agent, sent via email.

FQ: 10th June 2021 (Adult Historical Mystery, 87K)
Nudged: 23rd July 2021

EQ via online form: 7th June 2021
ER: 14th July 2021: "Thank you very much for submitting your material to us. Our agents have now had a chance to look at it and we are sorry to say we don’t feel that we can offer you representation. Because of the high volume of submissions we receive, unfortunately we are not able to give you more detailed feedback than this. However, these things are very subjective and someone else may well feel differently about your work. Thank you again for letting us take a look at your material, and we wish you the best of luck in finding an agent and publisher."

Adult Fantasy/Magical Realism, 94k

FQ: 6/10/21
CANCER COOKBOOK

FQ: 4/9/21

Upmarket YA 50k

EQ: 20 Nov 20

Adult suspense / LGBTQ+, 80k

FQ: 10/6/2020
FRj: 10/13/2020 signed from agency

FQ: 10/22/19
ER: 1/29/20 (form)

upmarket women's fiction 92K

EQ: 8/20/19 referred by another agent
Upmarket/Women's fiction

7/19/19 Online form re: LONG & SHORT - Women's Contemporary fiction 63K
8/13/19 form rejection

4/4/18: Online form re: JM - Contemporary fiction - rec'd auto-response of receipt. They aim to respond within 6 wks.
4/17/18: Form rejection