I thought we’d try something a little different today. I’m always happy to feature your queries, and, in the past, I’ve also shown you some successful queries that worked, and helped convince me to offer representation. But an agent’s job isn’t just about reading, it’s also about writing — just […]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
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And now for Round Two, featuring these stunning Jimmy Choos. YSL is a good friend who kindly agreed to let me share her query here. As well as working on submitting her novel, she’s also in the process of deciding on a grad school to attend. If anyone knows someone […]
We’ve got a special treat for you here today at kt literary. Not one, but TWO About My Query posts! The first one comes from EB, who won a contest sponsored by Elana Johnson for a query critique by yours truly. So, EB’s letter is addressed to me and has […]
I know, I know, I’m horribly late with my post today, and I’m going to let you down even further with something short. In my defense, I had to run around quite a bit today, trying to get things done before I leave for Bologna (one week from tonight!), and […]
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 […]
Lately I’ve gotten a number of emails from authors who’d like me to feature their query in my regular weekly “About My Query” posts (or AMQ for short). And I thought it would be helpful to put up the guidelines for such here, as a single reference point, and so […]
Clearly, I was a little too excited yesterday by the Oscars to actually blog, but I’ll make up for it today. First, as promised in last week’s post in which I asked you to make a speech about your theoretical awards-show thank you speech, one free copy of Scarlett Fever […]
Beautiful colorful shoes for Vee, whose About My Query follows. Before we go, though, a quick note about these posts. Each query that appears here was sent to me for the express purpose of being posted and commented on. I don’t just pull queries from my inbox and throw them […]
With the Oscars coming up this weekend, it seems like everyone has award show fervor on the brain. I was reading John Scalzi’s reprint of an article he wrote a few years ago about borrowing a friend’s Oscar, and it got me wondering… If you were given an award for […]