It’s been a while since we’ve done this, and I have just over 50 queries in my inbox to get all caught up on, so I figured it’s time for another live blog! As always, my goal here isn’t to be mean or petty, but to give my brief comments on what about each query [...]
Fellow literary agent Colleen Lindsay has once more spread the word for a day of tweeting about queries — no longer to go by the less-than-enthusiastically-received moniker of “queryfail”, today’s look at our queries is to be known as “Queryday,” and will be hashtagged appropriately. Honestly, I debated whether or not to participate this time. [...]
So today is my last day in the office before my big trip, and I’ve got a hefty (in bytes) pile of queries to try to get through. In hopes that having to check in with this live blog on each one will keep me plowing through them, here’s another edition of live-blogging my queries. [...]
Wondering what I’ve been up to today? I’ve been participating in the brainchild of Colleen Lindsay, an agent with FinePrint Literary management, aka Queryfail day on Twitter.
I’ve quite a number of queries since I reopened for business on January 5th, so I thought — since it got such a great reaction last time — I would serve up another helping of live-blogging my queries. As before, I don’t intend to post anything too specific about the queries here, but I will try to remark on my decisions to decline or request material.
