Who’s Your Audience?

March 10th, 2010

Sometimes it seems like every query I receive is for the same book — or, more truthfully, the same audience. And I just KNOW that’s not true. For one thing, it seems statistically unlikely, for another, I know that there’s room in publishing for lots of different books, and I’m sure you know [...]

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Ask Daphne! About My Query XXXXI

February 12th, 2010

In honor of my adventures on the slopes today, a par of ski boots to see us into the weekend! And an AMQ post from Lisa, which I’m going to once again ask my incredibly intelligent (and likely less-muscle fatigued) readers to critique first. Ready? Let’s go!
Dear Ms. Unfeasible,
A mystical book transports a great-grandfather back [...]

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Ask Daphne! What do you call this?

November 11th, 2009

Fantasy shoes for T.J. who found me via Twitter to ask the following question (the boots are a design by Michel Tcherevkoff, who has a book of these images. I just added it to my Christmas Wish List):
I have been an avid reader of Terry Brooks, Dragonlance series, Lord of the Rings, etc. for [...]

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Ask Daphne! About my multiple submissions

October 6th, 2009

Super fly shoes for Superfly, who’s sent us the following question:
I write middle grade novels and also have written and illustrated a picture book. I have sent queries out to agents for both projects at different times and had some interest. I have a few fulls and partials out for my middle grade [...]

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Let’s keep talking!

June 17th, 2009

Normally, as you know, I like to blog every day. Today’s going to be a little bit different — I mean, yes, I suppose I *am* blogging today, but only to tell you to go back to yesterday’s post and join in on the conversation about book banning. It’s fascinating to read everyone’s [...]

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