You can withdraw and resubmit through QueryManager if you subbed to BookEnds and the agent hasn't responded yet - but in general it doesn't sound like enough would have changed to re-query those agents that have already declined. #askagent

Thanks @authorlearning for hosting me for an interview about #bookmarketing, finding your platform and common trends among bestselling books. authorlearningcenter.com/marketing/mark… #publishing #askagent #litchat #promotip #getpublished

Yep, a sentence in the bio would be the best place! #askagent

If the partial is not an exclusive, there's no reason not to continue querying while you wait for the other agent's response. (I wouldn't give exclusives on partials in most cases either.) #askagent

FWIW, "Awake While Sleeping" doesn't really tell me anything about the genre/story. And while we can always change a title before it goes on submissions to editors, a query with a stronger title might be read faster. #askagent

Naming a song is fine - but just one line of a song's lyrics can be prohibitively expensive and most publishers are not going to pay the licensing fee for it. I wouldn't quote lyrics. #askagent

This is what I recommend as a template/like to see in my submissions box: tracymarchini.com/2018/02/06/wor… #askagent

I have clients that don't live in America and/or aren't American citizens. Location doesn't really affect my decision, as long as the author or illustrator is interested in hitting the American markets (and their work is something I think I can sell here.) #askagent

I've never heard this and think that a number of us (myself included!) ARE looking for more diverse voices in our inbox - including neurodivergent voices. I would not recommend a pseudonym for querying. #askagent

I talk a bit more about the breakdown here: tracymarchini.com/2018/01/02/my-… #askagent

So far that pattern is consistent, with the exceptions being months I do more interviews or conferences leading to a higher volume as well. New Year's resolutions = high volume, summer (July/August) and the last few weeks of the year (holiday crunch!) = lower volume #askagent

As much as I hear you on this, please refer to the other #askagent answers about how we must prioritize our time toward our signed clients first and their submissions, revisions, editor communications, covers, blurbs, promo strategy, next projects, subrights, contracts, etc etc.

"You gotta start somewhere" still applies. Query, write, query, write, and always work to improve! #askagent

Six months is plenty appropriate for a followup. I personally say three months, but you're correct that many agents have specific guidelines on their websites. If there are no followup guidelines, do send a polite inquiry. Worst that can happen is a no. #askagent

Like any fantasy right now, if you're going to write something that has been done successfully in the past, make sure you break the mold and approach it from a wildly new angle, or twist the rules. Every agent has diff preferences. #askagent

Case by case answer to this one. I ask for pages in addition to a query, so when I reject, it's often based on both the query+writing, or query wasn't for a story I want to rep, or the query was wonderful but writing didn't hold up. That rule isn't black&white for me #askagent

Everyone has different standards for the authors and projects they are looking to rep. Sounds like it was a personal decision, not a flaw in your approach, but @AgentJessicaA may have more insight than I do! #askagent

Inspired by an #askagent question, a #querytip for #amwriting #amediting #amquerying writers:
Bored characters make bored readers. You NEED a stronger catalyst for action in a story than "His life was unbearably dull so an exciting story started happening to him."

You definitely want to mention any published works, but I like to focus on one project at a time in a query. I will ask if I want to see something else by you. #askagent

YA always has a teen protagonist, but that's not the only marker of what YA is. YA stories are usually those where the teen shifts from childhood into the beginnings of adulthood, they find their place in the larger world outside of their family, etc. #askagent