Elana Roth Parker
Literary Agent
Laura Dail Literary Agency
Kidlit agent w/ @LDLiterary . @aalitagents communications committee. Avid quilter. Still not Elena. Open to queries. She/her.
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Dear god. I just read a query for a 192k word middle grade. Middle grade! I died. I’m dead. #querytip
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I always wonder what happens when you request a manuscript and it never arrives. #querytip
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Totally fine if you want to publish under a pen name, but can you please query with your real one? K, thanks. #querytip
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I feel like the most common submissions I’ve seen over 9 years of agenting have been Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland retellings. #querytip
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See, kids? It’s not just me. Get it together. #querytip
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Font size, people. Font size. #querytip
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At least I'm in good company on the non-BCCed mass query (with attachment!) I just got. How many no boxes can one query tick? #querytip
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Presented without comment: Elena Ross Parker just got queried with a Christmas book. #querytip
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I swear. Every YA query I read is comping to RED QUEEN or EMBER IN THE ASHES. Often both. So…yeah. #querytip
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Elana Roth Parker @ElanaRoth
Even allowing for the possibility that it’s brilliant, that’s just a huge ask of someone up front to read a book that long. It’s a turn-off.So, please, let me point you AGAIN to this most useful blogpost: literaticat.blogspot.com/2011/05/wordco… #pubtip #querytip
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All 2016 queries have been answered. (If that’s not true, I didn’t get your query.) Yay clean slate! #querytip #amagenting
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A trend I don’t love: word counts in the queries keep rising. MGs all seem to be around 70k, and YA is often 100k and up. #querytip
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Amy TrulyHollyJolly🌲❤️ @atrueblood5
Voice? Pacing? What does Literary Agent @ElanaRoth want to see in the first five pages of a… chasingthecrazies.wordpress.com/2016/07/08/fir… pic.twitter.com/0aNZixe6xeFor the lighter side today, I did a little blog interview… #pubtip #querytip twitter.com/atrueblood5/st…
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I’ve read queries today addressed to: Elana Ruth Parker, Elena Roth Parker, Laura Roth Parker. We’re doing *just* great. #querytip
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No, no. You do *not* get to reply back to a query rejection and ask, “How about this one?” #querytip
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Writer's Digest @WritersDigest
In honor of @elanaroth moving to Laura Dail Lit, watch her dissect a great MG query here tinyurl.com/hv5vapc pic.twitter.com/ngcAiTmCdVWell that just took me way way back! Still a great query letter. #pubtip #querytip twitter.com/WritersDigest/…
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Query: “Have you ever wondered…?” Me: “Nope.”
See what you did to yourself there? #querytip