I’m slightly behind my stated response time on queries, but I wanted to send along an update. I’ve read and responded to all queries sent prior to May 24th, and will be working on getting caught up to the present quickly. As of July 1st, I — and I alone […]
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Katherine emailed the other day: Hi there, If the world ends on December 21st, it will be the cruelest joke ever. That’s the last day of school before winter break. As much as I love teaching kiddos, I want my vacation. I’d also like to wrap up edits to my […]
The time is here. As of the date and time of this posting (if I manage to get it timed correctly), we will be closed to queries for the summer. We’ll reopen in September after Labor Day. Any queries received during this time will be automatically deleted unread. I look […]
I will be closing to queries for the summer as of midnight on Friday, May 25th. Any queries received after midnight (Mountain time) on Friday will be deleted unread. If I can figure out how, I will set up an auto-response. Otherwise, this note and a revised submissions page will […]
And speaking about being closed to queries, I just got this Ask Daphne! question from Anne: Do you have a specific date in March/April that you will be accepting queries again? I need to mark my calendar…I’m in the editing/tweaking phase and I’ve targeted you as the first agent I […]
I recently got two similar questions from readers, and I think there’ll well worth answering, especially this time of year. From Shannon: I’m wondering if, in general, there is a better time of year to query agents. I’m just wondering with trips, conferences, holidays etc, if there are times in […]
Thanks again to all of my fabulous guest bloggers for covering for me last week: Kater Cheek, Carrie Harris, Suzanne Casamento, and Amy Spalding. And thanks to YOU, my readers, for jumping in with your comments on the two About My Query posts that went up while I was off […]
As I may have hinted once or twice (or three million times) in the last few days, I’m heading out on a beach vacation tomorrow. As usual, I have my Kindle stocked with books and manuscripts, but there’s always that time on a airplane when all electronic devices must be […]