I always love following the Throwback Thursday hashtag on Twitter or Facebook, and today, I thought I’d play along with my own bookish version! To the left, below, the original hardcover edition of The Unnameables by Ellen Booraem. To the right, the current paperback edition!
Which do you prefer?
Just went through another pile of queries and it sometimes amazes me the simple things that queriers don’t do. Is it that hard to personalize your email? To make sure your book’s title actually appears in your query? I know I throw a lot of information up here on the blog, and I don’t expect people who are querying me to read every word I’ve ever written (some of them — like that Sweet Valley High rip-off novel I wrote in middle grade, about a dancer and the guy she liked named Lance — are totally stink-o), but don’t blithely ignore the easy-to-find submission guidelines and list of genres I’m looking for, ok?
Like many agents, I regularly get email links to sites that mention my authors, my agency, or myself. Today I found this nice mention of SAVING ZOE by Alyson Noel, from author Amanda Ashby, and this review of DEVILISH by Maureen Johnson from Trashionista. But I also love to follow the references and see where they lead, hoping to find something great to post about.
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2 thoughts on “#TBT – THE UNNAMEABLES by Ellen Booraem”
I prefer the current paperback edition. Even though the title looks crowded with all the graphics (I’d prefer it with just the text and the background), the new cover tells more of a story. The first cover is nice, but I have no idea what to expect from it. I might open the page to both of them but the second cover is the one I’d open first.