Formerly with Ross Yoon Literary. When I applied to Author Mentor Match in January 2021, I submitted a 95,000-word adult novel that I called YA because even though it wasnt, I knew I wanted it to be. I do not have one of those, I have always wanted to be a writer and wrote tons of books as a child! stories. Very informative. Probably because in 3 years I wrote the number of books I should have written in many more years. A good place to start is Writers Beware, a watch group that helps inform and protect authors I wrote the book I needed. Thanks for the great interview. The grief you didnt know how to bury. I send one query, to Claire Friedman of InkWell Management. Id worked so hard, for SO many months, and everyone loved the premise of my story. At my summer job, I wrote. becoming familiar with ways to spot and avoid bad agents. Emailed query 2/7/23: 80k adult speculative retelling, @novelist103 actually I did receive a receipt of confirmation on a query from her. I could come back from the crushing disappointment of shelving my other book. Carl D. Brandt - Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents. Amber Canavan - International Creative Management. Originally from Salt Lake City, Claire spent three years working for her local indie bookstore, The King's English, before moving to New York to attend Columbia University. On Query tracker agent is listed as interested in horror, but upon checking the website it seems that horror is not something they are looking for. For agency submissions, it is standard to submit a query letter and sample instead of the full manuscript. development, pacing, etc. Revising would take weeks, but I had a deadline. I got a full request right off the bat. Schwab, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Riley Sager, Helen Hoang, Talia Hibbert, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Leigh Bardugo, Casey McQuiston, Katherine Arden, Gail Honeyman, Rainbow Rowell, Libba Bray, Tamsyn Muir, Jeff Vandemeer, Shannon Hale, Tamsyn Muir, Christina Lauren, Ottessa Moshfegh, Courtney Summers and many more! I'm so excited Ms. Cervantes is considering picture books! I have to choose between some really amazing submissions, and some other manuscripts in my inbox were a better fit for my list. So we will skip to book number three, also known as THE FIRST BOOK I QUERIED. Thanks for the third and fourth chances :). Im always craving books like ADDIE LA RUE or SERPENT & DOVE (two of my all-time faves!) MS Type: Adult Contemporary, 116K words. 12. Learn more Changed agencies. When their notes came in, I cut scenes and added new ones, found out the only way I knew how to describe emotion was by clenching fists and rolling eyes, and felt the unnerving rush of email notifications of new comments. I knew she was the one. In my application query letter, I dubbed it contemporary fantasy, but on Twitter, I talked about it like it was a paranormal rom-com it had a few funny one-liners, and the main characters kissed, so I figured Id done the job. This time I had more querying research under my belt, and I probably sent over 100 queries without even waiting for agent feedback. works including religious overtones, YesLast Reviewed By Agent? I havent been And a query critique would be awesome! Analieze is David Dunton: David@harveyklinger.com. Use AgentQuery.com, QueryTracker.com, or Publishers Marketplace (see if you can join for a month to make it cheaper) to search for agents who like your kind of thing. Prior to joining InkWell, Claire interned at Don Congdon Associates. Thanks so much for joining us. An agent listing on QueryTracker is not an endorsement or recommendation of that agent by QueryTracker. In the meantime, I wrote another manuscript. 16. What advice do you have I cried reading her edit letter. This agent is seeking the following genres: Gave me a really kind, lovely rejection on a full request that complimented my writing but said she just wasn't excited enough about it to rep it. Author's names are only released with the permission of the author. Im especially looking for BIPOC and LGBTQ voices. She graduated from Cornell University in 2009, earning a B.A. It becomes book number eight. She offered me rep. I learned about agents when Adrienne Young announced her first book, SKY IN THE DEEP (which, by the way, is great). There are so many people who Get the free QT Newsletter with query tips and agent updates. So when I attended a WD conference in NY for the first Claire Friedman joined InkWell in 2016. 2. 6. 21 Nov 2022 Other recent favorites in no particular order: THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES, THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD, THE NO-SHOW, MORE THAN YOU'LL EVER KNOW, ALL MY RAGE, BABEL, ONE TRUE LOVES, FABLE, BELLADONNA, THE DAUGHTER OF DOCTOR MOREAU, CULT CLASSIC, THE LAST HOUSEWIFE, BLACK CAKE Great interview! Lit Agent @inkwellmgmt // claire@inkwellmanagement.com// Doesn't fully understand how to operate the Tweeter, (Oh, I also love romance!! Claire Friedman is a Literary Agent at InkWell Management based in New York, New York. And this time I knew who to query, thanks to my past experiences and my AMM family. what is your process like when youre working with your authors before Shortly after, I participated in PitMad on Twitter, and my pitch soared to become one of the most popular tweets of the day. //