Today's queries: 153 total
Today's requests:
Food memoirs: 1
Family memoir: 1
Women's fiction: 4
Surreal fiction: 1
YA/Historical: 3
YA/Paranormal: 2
YA/Contemporary: 1
Historical fiction: 2
Popular fiction: 2
Parents dying, leaving behind terrible secrets: 3 + last week's = 7
Collections of thoughts/stories/wisdom (all of which I rejected, though two wrote well): 3
Linked In requests/other spam: 5
Works rejected because the letter just screamed "I'm an evil author": 2
Insufficient data/wished for a sample: 3
"I've had other work published"--without specifying--never mind that a piece in, say, the New York Times could, you know, sway my opinion: 2
Requests of mine that included jokes referring to the query (one: "Yes! I AM tired of getting body-checked on the subway! I'd be happy to take a look"): 1
Requests entirely on the basis of an excellent title: 1
Authors who thought it a good idea to say, "Well, [this bestseller] and [this bestseller] had trouble getting published, and I've been trying for years, too--so that must mean I'm going to be a bestseller!": 1
Queries of 42 words or fewer: 2
Thank you notes from authors: 4
Projects that came in before I even switched over to the manuscripts account: 2
4 comments:
"Works rejected because the letter just screamed "I'm an evil author": 2"
Wow, I'd like to see those queries.
I'd love to post those, Theresa, but I think that would make me an evil agent. :)
I'll give you a hint though: ALL-CAPS. In INAPPROPRIATE places. Emphasizing how the GOOD author DESERVES an AGGRESSIVE agent for this VERY IMPORTANT work.
Yeah, no thanks.
Oh! A food memoir~ hope it is a goodie:) I've been itching to read one for awhile now...PS-- I heart chocolate fondue. It's almost not okay, how much I love it.
PS-- I just bought a book dedicated entirely to mixing chocolate and fun, funky salts in different recipes. Pretty much ready to over indulge like there is no tomorrow.
Hey GK,
Quick question for you. You've said you requested more info for 17of the queries you read in a day. Would this be considered high? From reading other agent blogs these numbers often seem a lot lower. One in particular comes to mind who only requests 1-2 partials for around every 200 queries read.
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