Janet Reid offers some rejection statistics

Category Archives: Submitting to Agents

Janet Reid, literary agent at FinePrint Literary Management recently kept track of how she responded to 124 novels. It’s a fascinating look at the current market for novels: Periodically I’ve posted tallies of my replies to incoming query letters. After one of those posts I realized that it might be interesting to keep tabs on [...]

Agent Kristin Nelson helps you interpret the letters you get from agents in response to your query/submission. Valuable advice on how to read between the lines! Form response: Don’t interpret anything. It could mean just about anything under the sun. Form response with personal comment Submission was interesting enough for the agent to make a [...]

Agent Kristin Nelson helps you interpret the letters you get from agents in response to your query/submission. Valuable advice on how to read between the lines! Form response: Don’t interpret anything. It could mean just about anything under the sun. Form response with personal comment Submission was interesting enough for the agent to make a [...]