The Back Story on how this author got a book agent
By Kaitlyn Abdou
This is not my first rodeo. In 2021, on my birthday in fact (November 21st), I decided to start querying for an agent with my first book, THE DAFFODIL WITCH. That journey was quite different from this one. I queried for exactly one year, receiving an offer while on a trip to Disney with my best friend, ON my birthday. I was so thrilled at the time–not only was I six weeks pregnant, I had an agent, and I was celebrating my birthday in my favorite place of all time! My querying stats for THE DAFFODIL WITCH were as follows:
Total Queries: 42
Rejections: 30
CNRs (closed, no response): 10
Partial Requests: 3
Full Requests: 13
Offers: 2
Time Querying: One year (exactly)