The Bindery Agency (formerly Alexander Field L.A.)

Alex Field - Any responses on fulls?

I haven't seen any activity on this link for a while - I can't even get it to come up when I click on the link under agencies.

I know several of you had requests for fulls from Alex - if you don't mind sharing, I was wondering about responses.

Thanks.

Sissy

I signed with Alex a couple of months ago and it's been an amazing ride so far.

Hmm so that may be why I haven't heard back from him on my 8/6/09 e-query. Ok. Good to know.

Queried on 12/2/09 and never heard anything back...

I queried Alex in early April. I hadn't heard anything back and after about eight months of fruitless querying, I decided to self-pub on Kindle. I uploaded late Friday. It didn't go live until yesterday. Of course, *today*, I get a full request. I swear, it's the story of my life.

I guess I'll have to decline his request. Dang. I've only sold five too, and one of those was to me to check my formatting.

Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do. Lord knows how long the full would be tied up with Alex--then it may still be a rejection. Just get that self-pub promotional machine in gear. I, for one, feel your pain (no I'm not a Bill Clinton groupie).

Daddyo said:

Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do. Lord knows how long the full would be tied up with Alex--then it may still be a rejection. Just get that self-pub promotional machine in gear. I, for one, feel your pain (no I'm not a Bill Clinton groupie).

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Thanks for the reply. I've been thinking maybe I'll send the manuscript with a note about the Kindle upload. I'll let him decide if he still wants to bother reading it. In all liklihood, he'll pass on it, but I put the ball in his court.

Queried Alex last night. This afternoon he requested the full.

Anaquana, congrats on the full! Good luck!

Alex requested my full in May 2009, but I never received a response. (I did nudge a couple times.) Maybe he was just backlogged or something? Oh well.

I forgot to update and say that Alex passed on my full.

However, today I received an email from him with no subject and just this link in the body -- http://sites.google.com/site/htrht554g/chrb8a. It leads to a site for Canadian meds, so I do believe his email has been hacked.

I've been meaning to query him for a while, and I finally did tonight. I'll let you know what happens.

Is there any further info on this agent? I've scrounged around a bit online, but I haven't found much info on what fiction sales, if any, he's made recently. Any news?

Bumping this thread.
If anyone has any info on sales. I didn't see anything on publishers marketplace (but that could mean he hasn't reported)

Just sent my query and synopsis to him. I'm glad I found the guy here in the index of agents (can't believe I never checked it), and I was real glad to see that he likes noir. While I'd say that my novel is literary, it definatly reads like a noir.

Odd. I google "Alexander Field Literary Agency" and nothing newer than 2009 shows up. No website link, no listing on P&E or QueryTracker, nada. Either my mad skillz are lacking, or he's no longer an agent.

Alex Field is accepting queries

Hey, I nudged Alex (he's my agent) to see if I could get any questions answered for this thread, and I just heard back from him. He is now accepting queries; I would use the old guidelines posted on his page (there's a link to it somewhere in this thread!).

As for sales, I can't speak for the other authors he's represented, but in 2010 he sold my trilogy to Orbit Books (Hachette Book Group). I am thrilled with him so far!

I queried him this morning, but checking my sent file it looks like good old Juno fouled up the formatting. Hope he doesn't hold that against me!

Queried him yesterday and got a request for a partial just now. Yippee!

Anthing more recent about this fellow. Can't find anything more up to date on his blog.

Is he on Query Tracker?

CaoPaux said:

No sign of recent activity. (Tburger above with a different agency as of '12.)

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He's still agenting (he is in fact my agent and sold a series for me that's due ou this year with Orbit) but he keeps a small list of clients afaia.