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19th January 2010, 06:14 PM
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| Truth. Order. Moderation.  | Re: "Personal" question(s) to John Jarrold Quote:
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29th January 2010, 08:29 PM
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| Registered User Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: California
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| Re: "Personal" question(s) to John Jarrold John, Please forgive me if this is an inappropriate question. I was just curious what your average response time to queries tends to be. Also, does it vary significantly from season to season? Thanks so much for answering the questions on this thread, it's been very insightful. |
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5th March 2010, 12:13 PM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Blaenau Gwent
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|  Re: "Personal" question(s) to John Jarrold I'm currently having a manuscript edited by John, and I can recommend his services. He'll tell you straight to the point what's wrong or not working, but will be fair and constructive about it. It's an ideal learning process as once you've seen his blue lines through your prose, you will quickly learn what's acceptable for the modern publishing industry and what isn't. |
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6th March 2010, 08:57 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: West Yorkshire
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| Re: "Personal" question(s) to John Jarrold Salaris, I can give a rough answer. I recently submitted my book to Mr. Jarrold, and got a reply in just less than a month. In addition, the reply, though a rejection, was pretty helpful. It wasn't just a standard rejection copied and pasted. |
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7th March 2010, 09:41 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: West Sussex
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8th March 2010, 08:21 PM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Kansas
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| Re: "Personal" question(s) to John Jarrold So if I've waited for around 8 weeks, should I ask him? I saw someone on a live journal feed comment that Mr. Jarrold gave a detailed critique last year after 189 days, so I thought maybe he's flooded. I don't want to bother him, but I would like to know if he received the query, ya know?  |
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8th March 2010, 10:15 PM
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| Tails of the Unexpected  | Re: "Personal" question(s) to John Jarrold Hi, I would wait. John is that busy he no longer has time to come here. Give him another 4 weeks and then I'd send an email. Word it something like - 'Hi there I sent you a query on ???? and I know your really busy but I wondered had you time to look at it yet? I fully understand if you havent, perhaps you could confirm you've received it bladi bla... Johns a good bloke, he'll be in touch I'm sure  |
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8th March 2010, 10:49 PM
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| Registered User Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Kansas
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| Re: "Personal" question(s) to John Jarrold Thanks! That's what I had in mind, except I wasn't sure when would be a good idea. Every agent with any reputation seems flooded right now, so I figured he must be. |
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9th March 2010, 03:25 AM
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| I lie. A lot. Honest!  Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: [I am a spambot, selecting the default option - ban me!]
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| Re: "Personal" question(s) to John Jarrold Why would they all be flooded right now? Is this generally known to be a busy submission period? I would have assumed agents gets queries and submissions all year round... |
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9th March 2010, 06:41 AM
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| Senior Member  | Re: "Personal" question(s) to John Jarrold Quote:
There are a lot of would be authors submmitting (Far more than there was when I first started submitting) to the ones that are open. (John being one) A lot of top UK agents have closed their doors to submissions, because of the amount of subs coming their way. Also John has a number of authors on his books that have books coming out or under submission to publishers and rightly they get his attention first. | |
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