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Old 01-24-2012, 06:34 AM   #326
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I'd try through email again, since that's how she requested it. Have you tried putting "Requested Materials" in the subject line, to see if that gets you through the filter?

Also, what email client are you using? Some have trouble with hotmail and yahoo, and I've heard of some agencies' systems even booting gmail until they got a fix on that. Do you have another address you can try to send from?
Thanks to both of you...I was dumping the pages in the letter...and requested, but the email comes back spam I tried three times, including a short email just asking if it went through, and that didn't work either. I'll check and see if I can send through another email as this is going from a mac mail server. In any case, I'll call the agency in the morning...I'm wary of sending my work through form letters that give you no paper trail of a submission in general so I hopefully will straighten it out tomorrow.

OK she let me know apparently their web server was being worked on got it through thanks all.
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Old 03-06-2012, 01:12 AM   #327
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Sent a quick query to Jim Levine himself, got a quick response with a small rejection note saying it's hard to sell but he wished me good luck with it.

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Old 04-17-2012, 06:36 PM   #328
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Danielle Svetcov has opened up to adult and YA mysteries. She is having a contest to see what's out there 4/18 2-8 pm at Miss Snark's First Victim blog.

Saw it on twitter, thought I'd share.
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Old 04-18-2012, 04:53 PM   #329
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For anyone who's interested in recent information on YA agent Kerry Sparks of Levine Greenberg, I've got an interview with her up on my blog today. She's fantastic! http://michelle-krys.blogspot.ca/
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Old 04-18-2012, 09:49 PM   #330
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For anyone who's interested in recent information on YA agent Kerry Sparks of Levine Greenberg, I've got an interview with her up on my blog today. She's fantastic! http://michelle-krys.blogspot.ca/
That's interesting. The agency submission page has "Please do not query agents directly" in bold letters, but in the interview Kerry says "authors are also free to email me queries directly."


She likes middle-grade, but the submission form doesn't even have a check mark for it. And nothing on the submission form allows you to direct to a specific agent.


Now what?
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Old 04-18-2012, 10:05 PM   #331
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That's interesting. The agency submission page has "Please do not query agents directly" in bold letters, but in the interview Kerry says "authors are also free to email me queries directly."


She likes middle-grade, but the submission form doesn't even have a check mark for it. And nothing on the submission form allows you to direct to a specific agent.


Now what?
She says it's okay to email her queries directly using the email address in the interview. Agent Query states the same regarding her submission guidelines.
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Old 04-19-2012, 03:29 AM   #332
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Well, I fired off a middle-grade query directly to Kerry instead of using the form. If anything awful happens to me, I'll try to write a warning in my own blood.
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Old 04-19-2012, 04:40 AM   #333
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Old 04-19-2012, 09:41 AM   #334
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I queried Danielle Svetcov to her email and wasn't struck down with a bolt from the blue and ninja assassins didn't come after me.

I got a partial request instead.
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Old 04-20-2012, 05:49 AM   #335
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Old 04-24-2012, 07:28 AM   #336
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Old 07-27-2012, 08:21 PM   #337
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I posted an interview with Danielle Svetcov today!

http://www.motherwrite.blogspot.com/...e-svetcov.html

And she specifically mentioned that she prefers queries to be sent to her personal e-mail address at Levine Greenberg, dsvetcov@levinegreenberg.com. So there you go.
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Old 10-05-2012, 11:08 PM   #338
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I posted another interview with a Levine Greenberg agent, Kerry Sparks:

http://www.motherwrite.blogspot.com/...ry-sparks.html

Good luck to everyone waiting to hear back from her!
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