Intern Jenny and I just went through another batch of queries this morning, and amid a cluster of “Madison”s and “Chosen One”s, I came across several queries with a phrase similar to: “After being unable to find any good novels for this age group, I decided to write one myself.” Now, sure, I’m exaggerating for [...]
A conversation starter today, if you don’t mind. I was thinking about blurbs, and how eager we as agents and editors are to get the right people to blurb our books, and I posed the question on Twitter: As readers, how much weight do you put on blurbs? Will you pick up an unknown author [...]
Actual shoes worn by an actual empress for K.R., who contributes today’s About My Query. As always, please chime in in the comments with your thoughts! Dear Daphne, Abigail – Gail, to anyone who wants to keep their teeth – has problems. They start on her sixteenth birthday when the only present she gets is [...]
This “love”ly piece of art is for Meg (and is made by Penny Pickles), who writes: Hi. I’ve been looking around the web for information on this, but I keep getting different opinions. Could you tell me how long you expect a synopsis to be? Also, I saw on your website that if you like [...]
Not just a speed round, let’s call this a lightning round, shall we? (in honor of these cool shoes.) I asked for questions on Twitter, and here’s some of the gems I received. If you keep asking, I may keep answering, but let’s start with what we have, mmmkay? @Brattyhack writes: “My question is about [...]
