Sara Megibow
Literary Agent
KT Literary
she/her Literary Agent at KT Literary. Reading, parenting, table top gaming, baking challah, hiking and wine tasting. Always LGBTQIA+ friendly!
Literary Agent
In my inbox I'm seeing a lot of queries for superheroes and noir. That's not good or bad one way or the other = I'm just making an observation.
#QueryStats
#agenting
Literary Agent
Interesting #QueryStats for March (not April as I'm nowhere near through April submissions)...
80 sample pages read (from roughly 2,000 queries)
28% of those 80 were middle grade submissions
82% of those MG submissions open with protagonist speaking to an adult.
Literary Agent
25,000 queries read in 2017. The vast majority were for young adult fantasy followed by adult fantasy and then contemporary young adult. #querystats
Literary Agent
#QueryStats = read 97 queries today and passed on 95 of them. 17 (so far) responses of, "could you please provide feedback?" #agenting
Literary Agent
#QueryStats - also, huge uptick in queries for adult science fiction. Woo HOOO! *fist bump* sci-fi!
Literary Agent
#QueryStats - interesting! YA fantasy is outpacing contemporary YA in queries right now (for first time in years!)
Literary Agent
#QueryStats = I calculate that I spent 4% of last week reading queries. That's pretty normal. #agenting
Literary Agent
#QueryStats = tons of submissions this month for happy/upbeat/positive contemporary MG and YA written by elementary teachers. :)
Literary Agent
#QueryStats = huge rush of adult SF queries in which protagonist is Artificial Intelligence. #interesting #queries