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Philippa East posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
For those of you on the agent hunt, here’s a JW blog about what agents are currently looking for.
https://jerichowriters.com/new-year-wish-list-from-literary-agents/
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Ah, I see that Sandra Sawicka of Marjacq Scripts is looking for ‘a ghost story with a good modern spin.’ Hmm…
I met Sandra Sawicka at York last year. Sad to say, but she was dismissive to the point of bluntness. Not pleasant. And I wouldn’t recognise her from that photo.
Thanks, Philippa, for the link.
Alan, I had the same experience of SW – she spent 5 of my 10 minutes saying how she hated my title (which my next 1-1 liked!) and was dismissive and unpleasant. I would never recommend her.
… but thanks for the link, Philippa.
That’s interesting. I thought it might just have been me. And my other 1-1 was fine. It could suggest the real problem is with SS, but it’s not for me to speculate.
Slightly hesitant to pile on as I have not met her personally, but she was on a Jericho Writers slush pile live webinar and was on the whole negative.
Thing is, a bad attitude towards a newbie writer from a ‘serious’ agent could shatter confidence. I don’t know if anyone from Jericho writers reads these comments, but I do feel they should be aware of the perils of employing such a negative person.
I shrugged it off as meaningless, because my feeling as I approached her at the 1-1 table was that she was going to be ‘off’.