September started out on a pretty good note, but on September 7th I woke up to the most dreaded email I’ve ever had. In fact, when I opened it I had to read it twice and it still didn’t completely register – I sort of went like this
Dean <3
My agent had made a tough choice and decided to change career directions. This left me agentless. With a manuscript pretty much ready to go on submission as it had been for five weeks. I was devastated. Absolutely. Okay. I panicked. I pretty much spent the whole day in this state:
My lovely CP Heather C. came over right away and helped console me. And of course Leigh Caroline – what would I do without you. Together we dived into Query revisions and agent list compiling.
Then I re-read the email. And a light went on. 
She would see if any of her agent friends might be interested in FOD. Who wouldn’t take her up on that? So… within two days I had several full manuscript referrals. One person wanted an exclusive, but I wasn’t comfortable with that, and yet she still wanted the full anyway.
So, I carefully compiled my little scrivener file and query letters. I sent out the fulls and a couple of queries for good measure. Then I received an another full request (also courtesy of my former agent – she was amazing in helping me find a new home). After sending them all out by the 10th of September, I sat back and curled into a little ball and waited. Sort of like this:
In the wee hours of the morning on September 18th, the awesome lady who requested an exclusive submission that I wouldn’t grant, sent me an Offer of Representation. Bree Ogden offered to be my agent. And she’d only had the full for eight days. I sort of looked at it and went: 
which is sort of funny because I managed to wake my husband up who was asleep. But that’s what he’s there for, right?
Of course, then I panicked again. I had to email all of the people who had my fulls and let them know I had an offer. Which I did.
I was more polite than that, but you get the idea. On the Friday I got another declaration of interest in the book. And so I sat and waited. And then I had the call with Bree on Monday 23rd.
Bree had been ill, so we’d had to wait a little to talk. I was sooooo nervous. But the call was fantastic and she loves FOD. In fact, I swear she sees more in that book than I realized I wrote! After the call I was all:
But I still had days to wait. So I researched even more, and double checked agencies. Then I got several bow outs.
Side Note: Bow outs are so nice! Really people only had my full for just over two weeks before I needed their decision. But I got a lot of encouragement, and well wishes and hopes to see FOD on PM soon. Made me feel marginally talented and stuff.
By the end of the given waiting period I was so excited to send Bree the signed contract! She’s passionate about FOD and absolutely perfect for me! I couldn’t be a happier author (well I could, but we’ll get there together 😉 )
I am now officially agented by Bree Ogden of the D4EO Literary Agency!
I couldn’t have held my sanity together without my CPs Leigh Caroline, Becca Weston, Heather Cashman and Jamie Dement. And definitely wouldn’t have made it to here without the support of my writing buddies: Brenda Drake, Erica Chapman, Heather Gilbert, Andrew Patterson, Sarah Henning for her query help and thanks to my new agent sister Brianna Shrum for answering so many questions too!
Now – let’s all have cupcakes!
P.S. Thanks to the All the Supernatural GiFs tumblr and mudzeh and coporolight for the awesome gifs
CONGRATULATIONS!!
That is amazing news!! Best wishes on your new writer/agent relationship with Bree – I’m sure it will be an amazing experience. So happy the month has turned around completely 🙂
Holy cow! That’s both terrifying and amazing. I’m glad you and FOD were able to find a new agent home. Good luck with it and keep us all updated! 🙂
Congratulations! It was an honor to hold your hand through such a tough and exciting time! FODDER is amazing and you will soon be celebrating a publishing deal, I am certain! <3
I’ve seen so many of these posts recently about people losing their agent (I got a letter regarding my query from her), but you definitely got the fastest happy ending! While I’m sorry you had to go through all the stress, I hope this works out even better for you in the end 🙂
Glad things worked out in getting another agent 🙂
<3 Glad to have helped sweetie! It's not luck. You're so incredibly talented, and FOD is sooooooooo well told and with such an amazing voice, I knew you'd be snapped right up!! No time for snoozing on amazing writing! 😛 Now celebrate, and plot me something new 😛
what a crazy, stressful ride! so glad it turned out well.
Wow, what a story! I have read quite a few stories like this about people losing their original representation and ending up back in the query trenches, and it sounds so devastating and so much like one of those roller coaster rides that isn’t fun at all while you’re on them (but, looking back, wasn’t too bad when you end up safe and sound at the end, but man, wouldn’t want to do it again!). That’s wonderful that you had a CP to lean on, and my goodness, good luck on submission!!
Congrats!
I think Bree & you will be a perfect match (I’m not brave enough to say Match-Made-In-Heaven because I think Bree would hex me or something! lol).
I am yet to find an agent so I don’t know that thrill (I’m still living with the thrill of 3x Fulls & 3x partials in the last 2 weeks) and I can only imagine the shock of your first read of your former agent’s email.
I wish you the very best of luck …and I agree about the awesome Brenda Drake, I have no idea how she has time to write with everything she does for others…keep us updated on the progress of FOD 🙂
That’s hard-awesome, lady!
A tough patch of ground to walk over, but I have no doubt this will be an amazing pairing. Congrats! [And this time it’s gonna stick.]
That is awesome news! All the best with Bree and I agree, hope to see FOD on PM soon!
YES. THIS IS EXCELLENT. So happy for you, KT. *hugs*
Wow, what a roller coaster you’ve been on this month! Congrats on the new agent, though, and I hope you make that big sale soon ;).
First of all, congrats! Bree had a mss of mine I was hoping she’d like but alas…anyway, am I correct in assuming your former agent is no longer agenting? I saw your post back in March about signing with her and I just sent her a query but nothing came back. If she’s no longer agenting, I’d like to query someone else in the agency. Good luck and I hope your book sells soon!
I’m terrible and just now seeing this, but CONGRATULATIONS!!!