Anybody had any recent interaction with these ladies (particularly Jamie)? The website says the response time for queries varies, but I gather they do reply to all. The waiting continues...
~Fleur
~Fleur
According to Query Tracker, Jamie responds pretty quickly, within a week.
"As you may know, back in 2012, I decided that I wanted to be a literary agent. I’d long dreamt of the idea–pretty much ever since I found out there was such a thing from Mandy Hubbard–but being unpublished and having no experience or connections, I wasn’t sure how to go about making that happen. I pretty much lucked into a trial run remote internship with Carol Mann Agency, which turned out the be an amazing learning experience. After a year or so, however, I started to feel a little cramped–all those in-house interns were getting their dream jobs, but here in St. Louis, I was still interning at night with no advancement opportunities in sight–so I began reaching out to other agencies that had a presence outside of New York.
Not everything was a great fit. I overcommitted myself to two great agencies and I truly believe that that my months of flailing there almost cost me everything. Lesson Learned: it’s great to be ambitious, but it’s much more important to be realistic about what you can accomplish.
Thankfully, things worked out in the end. For the last several months, I’ve been working with Michelle Johnson and Jamie Bodnar Drowley of Inklings Literary Agency. I started out as an intern, building a MASSIVE database of editors for the agents to use while building their pitch lists. From there, I began to assist Michelle and Jamie in preparing manuscripts for pitching. I currently am an assistant agent (YAY!) with Inklings, and while I am still working closely with Michelle and Jamie, I am slowly starting to build my client list. I’m not accepting uninvited queries quite yet, but you’ll probably see me poking around pitch sessions on Twitter. I know some authors worry about fledgling agents, and I completely understand, but rest assured: I have my act together, I’m good at what I do, and I am under the wings of some AWESOME agents!
I’m still learning and growing as a publishing professional, both as an agent and in my “day job”, so it’s busy, busy, busy. But…"
According to the website they are closed as of Sept 15th for unsolicited submissions.
She requested a full back on August 8th, and I haven't heard a word.