Lane Heymont

Don't hire someone with no credentials to edit your manuscript. Always -- if you choose to do so at all -- hire on recommendation. #querytip

If your bio is a rambling string of words there's a good chance your writing will be too. #querytip #NoGrammarLifeDoesntWorkInWriting

Your query/manuscript should probably be well written with as perfect grammar & spelling as possible... #querytip #writetip #JustSaying

A query letter should be in the body of an email. Not sent as an attachment. #querytip

In writing, voice is everything. #writetip #querytip

Science fiction doesn't need comms or holo-screens to be science fiction. #writetip #querytip

This. No fancy twisting of words. What I want is what I want. #querytip twitter.com/jenazantian/st…

Querying already published books is literally putting the cart before the horse. Or along those lines. #querytip

Authors, a query needs a blurb, a hook, GMC, but not how you love writing. I assume you love writing or why would you query me? #querytip

If you suggest a colleague or I would steal your work in your query, it's an automatic rejection. No one has time for that. #querytip

Sending insulting emails to agents is not the way to get an agent, or succeed in the publishing industry. #querytip #CommonSense

Your query isn't the place to tell me how your book begins or how you're tired of such and such genre. Just give me a killer hook! #querytip

Comparing your novel to FRANKENSTEIN will likely result in a rejection. You can't measure up, so why set an impossible bar? #querytip

Your query says a lot about your voice and style, and thus your manuscript. Avoid sloppy and long winded paragraphs. #querytip #writetip

Exactly!!! #querytip twitter.com/sparrowbeckett…

You don't bite the hand that feeds you. #querytip #lifetip #

"Fiction novel" is the ugliest phrase in the English language. It makes me cringe. #DontBeAnAmateur #DoYourResearch #Querytip #Agenting

Ask the questions before readers do. Question everything. Unlike real life, fiction has to make sense. #querytip #writetip

If u can quit writing, do so. This business will break ur heart & shatter ur spleen. If u can't quit writing, u might be a writer. #querytip

Twitter spam is super annoying. #agenting #querytip #musictip #lifetip