Ann Rose

#QueryTip 🧵
* Don't forget to include your query letter. The number of submissions I'm seeing without one is really perplexing.
* Format your pages! If your book is one big block of text it's almost impossible to read.
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#QueryTip: After writing your synopsis, give it to someone who knows nothing about your story. If it confuses them, it will confuse an agent/editor too.
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#QueryTip - Make sure you follow submission guidelines. We ask for synopsis, and for me, I always read them before I request pages. So if your submission doesn't have one, guess what? It's more times than not a pass. So do yourself a favor and send ALL requested material

Your friendly reminder that your story likely does NOT need to start with your character waking up.
Consider finding a more interesting dropping in point.
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Query box trend: Using more than 1 genre to identify your work--While yes, a book can have more than one it can't sit on all the shelves simultaneously so you need to decide where it would fit best. And vague "teens and adults will love this" isn't a genre either. 😉
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Bonus #QueryTip — if asked for a synopsis in the submission package that isn’t the query. It’s a separate doc that tells the beginning, middle, and end of a book, complete with character arc. Repeating the query is NOT a synopsis, and spoilers are expected in a synopsis

#QueryTip: if you are going to pitch your book as a romance then it MUST end with a HEA (happily ever after) or a HFN (happily for now) if it doesn’t, it’s NOT a romance
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#Writingtip: You don’t always have to tell us where a character is looking for us to understand what they are seeing.

Control F: Look - in your MS and destroy as many as you can
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The number of submission in my inbox that are already published keeps growing.
If your book is available for sale on Amazon, it's published.
Query the next project. (And I don't mean book 2 in the series.)
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Yes! This whole thread! ❤️
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So many submissions are once again way outside word count standards.
Writers don’t shoot yourself in the foot—get as close to those standards as you can to help increase your odds.
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Really great thread for querying writers. Or for those thinking of querying.
As a writer sometimes I even come up with the query before I write the book to make sure I’m on target.
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Maybe don't write your query in first person, especially if you're book is about a serial killer.😬
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Lots of varying answers here because let’s face it publishing is weird.
But for most, a self published book will NOT be picked up by a traditional imprint.
Are there exceptions to every rule? Of course. The trick is to not assume you are the exception.
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Worth a read to help create a strong opening
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I'm not sure what's going on but out of the 10 queries I just looked at 4 started with the character waking up and 5 didn't have a query letter just sample pages.
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Reminder to querying writers: If your book is for sale on Amazon it is published.

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Reminder to writers: When you get an offer make sure you let all the agents who have your work know, not just the ones who have requested pages but the ones with just a query too
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Query trend: Word counts way outside the standard for the genre/age group. 😬
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Oh... and follow submission guidelines please. Nothing makes me sadder than an unsolicited query in my inbox that I have to delete because they didn’t follow the rules like all the other authors
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