Connor Goldsmith

Enough with the fallen angels. #querytip

CANDYMAN? Sure! HELLRAISER? No, thanks. #querytip

You can get violent, but if you're going Clive Barker think more VALERIE ON THE STAIRS and less MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN. #querytip

WRT horror submissions -- I like it a bit subtler. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Joyce Carol Oates. No torture porn. #querytip

There's nothing WRONG with writing a dating self-help book for straight men, I am just really not the right agent for it. #querytip

Licensed stuff like Star Wars books and such aren't something we just send to the company with a 'you like?' sticker on them. #querytip

You would think this is self-explanatory but I get them on occasion, so: you can't just pitch me a tie-in novel based on a movie. #querytip

When describing a storyline set in multiple locations, try not to say the story "vacillates". That's not a good thing. #querytip

Not to dredge up last month's ~*~*~*~controversy~*~*~*~, but fantasy novels with no major female characters do not interest me. #querytip

Unrelated, another #querytip: World War II is a tough historical period to sell right now. Make sure there's something REALLY fresh.

Just a general #querytip -- and not to say ALL such books are a no-go -- books abt women being sex trafficked written by men make me uneasy.

"I hope to save you time by telling you in the first paragraph why you might *not* want to represent me."

don't do this. #querytip

Today's most unfortunate query inbox simile: "Like a misguided Jew working for the Nazis." Let's not. #querytip

Things I am probably never going to be interested in: 'satires' of 'millennials' by people decades older than us. #querytip

Magical Realism is a very specific genre. Make sure your manuscript qualifies before you claim it! #querytip

For probably the 50th time: when I say I'm interested in marginalized perspectives, I mean real ones. 'Do space aliens count?' No. #querytip

Fellow menfolk: bemoaning the lowbrow tastes of 'female agents' is not a good way to make me want to work with you. #querytip

That should be a #querytip even: no eye trauma; I will put down your manuscript and scream for 500 years.

If your book isn't erotica, don't use 'kinky' as the first word to describe your heroine. Especially if you're a dude, you creep. #querytip

The fact that you already sold film rights is not an enticement. We could have sold those together and made more money. #querytip