Submitted an UF to Jen Bouvier 11/15.
Updated to in-progress 11/18.
Rec'd email from Lydia Sharp 12/17 that sub is still under review with their editorial team and asked for additional time to reach a decision. Requested to let me know if I received an offer or if I wished to withdraw for any reason.

I feel concerned about the plagiarism lawsuit regarding the Crave series. I read all 86 pages of the lawsuit, as I wrote a paper on the topic in college. I was reading the Crave series at the time and loved it. I was on the 5th book in the series. I have read many plagiarism cases but this one really had something to it. Usually they are a real stretch but it stated that the unpublished author's agent, Emily Sylvan Kim, fed her ideas to her other client, Tracey Wolff, while Entangled gave her the assignment to 'write' the stories. She even introduced the two of them at a conference and asked the unpublished author to share about her project with Wolff. Kim put the author through 45 rewrites and finally rejected it, when Crave was actually published under Wolff's name. I wasn't there, I don't know what happened. But reading Wolff's thank you messages in her book, the editors at Entangled seemed involved and the publisher was named in the suit. She changed the names on some of the characters, but not all. Some scenes were taken directly from the original story about the paranormal boarding school in Alaska. I want to see how it all pans out before I pass judgement for myself. But it does give me pause.

Queried: Nov 29 NA speculative fiction/ fantasy crossover.

Queried 2 MS on June 10, 2024 at an editor's request.
Aug 1 - update that editor had started manuscript, four chapters in (on one manuscript, unsure about the other)
Aug 16 - meeting with editor to discuss R&R on primary MS with intent to pass along to another editor, VERY interested in the success of the project as a whole but was informed she couldn't acquire the novel as she was a previous beta reader.
Aug 22 - received formal (form) rejection on one MS from original editor with a personal notice to resubmit to a different editor, second manuscript passed to a third editor
Oct 3 - after revisions have been implemented, MS sent to editor2 as instructed

Submitted a Fantasy novel in July 17th 24.
Rejection from Lydia on September 17th 24.