Tracy Marchini

How and where should I put together my online portfolio as an author-illustrator? #AskAgent #kidlit tracymarchini.com/2018/07/14/put…

Reader question: How many clients does an agent have, on average? - #AskAgent #amquerying tracymarchini.com/2018/07/11/rea…

Reader question: How do I submit my dummy as an author-illustrator? #AskAgent tracymarchini.com/2018/05/22/rea…

For picture book fiction, two to three sentences can be enough! #picturebooks #amquerying #askagent

#askagent It's not that we're turned off by a rejection, but we can't reshop it to a house that's already seen it, even if another editor at that house may have been another fit. If it's been seen by a bunch of editors already, our hands are tied in what we can do.

Yep - plenty of authors don't end up with representation on the first book they query, and so it's not unusual to query the same agent for a few different projects over a period of time #askagent

If you don't think the art is ready and you're not wedded to the idea of illustrating all of your own books, then I would just query as an author first. You don't want someone to reject the whole package b/c of the art when they might have loved your words. #askagent

Good point - can't assume that the agent doesn't rep this new genre, or wouldn't be interested in going out with this book with the help of colleagues, etc. #askagent

That'd be a discussion with your agent about the genre change and what you'd like to do with your career long-term. It might mean two agents (e.g. one for adult, one for children's) or it might mean you're not a great fit if you want to switch entirely #askagent

#askagent - how do I follow up on referrals?

Unless the poem is in the public domain, you'd probably have to seek permission as well. A line from a poem could be considered a significant portion of the text. #AskAgent

I'm not sure how this could be true - "own voice" means you're writing from an underrepresented perspective that you yourself have lived (e.g. an author with OCD writes a character who has OCD). If that's not the case, then it's not 'own voices.' #AskAgent

99.9 times out of 100, the answer is no. There's too much competition - especially in fantasy - to query with anything other than the finished piece. #askagent

#AskAgent question: Can I use song lyrics in my novel? tracymarchini.com/2018/03/20/ask…

I would still use the same format for querying YA fantasy that I would advise for any other genre - but with a little more world building in your hook/synopsis. (tracymarchini.com/2018/02/06/wor…) #askagent

You can withdraw and resubmit through QueryManager if you subbed to BookEnds and the agent hasn't responded yet - but in general it doesn't sound like enough would have changed to re-query those agents that have already declined. #askagent

Yep, a sentence in the bio would be the best place! #askagent

If the partial is not an exclusive, there's no reason not to continue querying while you wait for the other agent's response. (I wouldn't give exclusives on partials in most cases either.) #askagent

FWIW, "Awake While Sleeping" doesn't really tell me anything about the genre/story. And while we can always change a title before it goes on submissions to editors, a query with a stronger title might be read faster. #askagent

Naming a song is fine - but just one line of a song's lyrics can be prohibitively expensive and most publishers are not going to pay the licensing fee for it. I wouldn't quote lyrics. #askagent