Less than eleven hours after I sent him a query letter, Warren Frazier emailed me back and asked for a partial, which is of course both appreciated and shocking, to be honest. I'm not sure I've ever had an agent ask for a partial of NINJAS in such a short amount of time, but I'm definitely not complaining.
I won't get my hopes up at this point because it's just a partial. Additionally, NINJAS is very voice-driven and stylized, so it's not for everyone. I give agents fair warning in the query, but seeing voice-driven stylization on the page is always different. Also, Warren Frazier represents some motherfucking heavy-hitters in the literary world: Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olen Butler, Adam Johnson, and Jess Walter, among others, which includes three Pulitzer-Prize winners ("Bob," as Julianna Baggott called him back when we talked long-distance on the phone from Argentina to Florida in 2008, Adam Johnson and also Frederik Lovegall, who won a Pulitzer in history for his book, Embers of War). So, I'm nothing if not realistic. Still, when an awesome agent is reading one of your novels, there's always a little room for hope.
I won't get my hopes up at this point because it's just a partial. Additionally, NINJAS is very voice-driven and stylized, so it's not for everyone. I give agents fair warning in the query, but seeing voice-driven stylization on the page is always different. Also, Warren Frazier represents some motherfucking heavy-hitters in the literary world: Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olen Butler, Adam Johnson, and Jess Walter, among others, which includes three Pulitzer-Prize winners ("Bob," as Julianna Baggott called him back when we talked long-distance on the phone from Argentina to Florida in 2008, Adam Johnson and also Frederik Lovegall, who won a Pulitzer in history for his book, Embers of War). So, I'm nothing if not realistic. Still, when an awesome agent is reading one of your novels, there's always a little room for hope.