Ann Rose
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Tobias Literary Agency
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#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
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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
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#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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Donyae Coles @okokno
You literally do not have to write slurs regardless of the time period of your novel or whatever. You are free from that false obligation. You can replace every slur with "them people, their kind, those others." There, done. You are free.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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Laura Zats @LZats
Up early going through queries with a huge pot of tea. I'm thinking, as always, of different ways to make querying easier and more successful for all kinds of writers.I think a lot of writers find hard-and-fast rules about querying useful. But many don't. (thread)
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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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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