Don't be nervous.

Dear Mother of God. It honestly is all over the place. 99% (rough approximation) are 6-10, because querying writers usually are quite strong. The remaining 1% are CLEARLY 1 or 0 or minus grades.

As long as it is not instantly, it's ok.

Of course. Business is not personal. It's just business. One of my proudest sales was to an editor who had rejected me 19 times before they bought the first of mine. Since then they bought a bunch, and still rejects a bunch.

Don't make yourself crazy over this. If someone is really enjoying your book it's pretty easy to do a select all and change the rules to what pleases you most. I read on Kindle so it all looks the same. #askagent

I'm going to say, "I don't really care" in the nicest way possible ;) I tend to write single spaced paragraphs with double spaces between them. If you prefer paragraph indents I would double-space. I'm not that picky about font if it's clean. #askagent

If you’re concerned that your opening pages won’t grab an agent, they won’t grab a reader either. I don’t think the answer is submitting different chapters. It’s revising those that aren’t working. #askagent

It's definitely worth adding. It could even be one line in your bio. In addition to writing picture books.... #askagent

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It’s a little on the long side, but I’ll sometimes go over a bit without a fuss. It depends on the agent I think.

Nah, that would be a conversation to have with them if/when they ask and offer representation. :) You just want to personalize for the agents, so “I saw on your MSWL page that you’re looking for historical in the vein of Ruby from Cold Mountain. This manuscript has her voice and

Website! Connections! Blog! Instagram and Bookstagramming! And literally just conversations and being nice to people on twitter consistently.

No, you should only focus on one book in a query anyways, but you can say it’s an expected/proposed duology. :)

In an initial query, yes. As a nudge when deciding on a book, not necessarily. :)

I posted a query stats post at the beginning of this year, but I believe it was a 0.013% of queries and submissions who actually became my clients/received offers.

Oof, that’s tough. The only tips I can really give without knowing anything is to make it personal and write what you feel you need to write. Market yourself as a writer, not just marketing the book. And give specifics for comp titles (i.e. the games of The Hunger Games meets the

Not much. Three to four sentences at most. :)

It worth the time and energy spent negotiating contracts, buying out of contracts, re editing it, getting it down from Amazon and such.

Because if you’ve already published, it means the rights are usually not for sale, and even if they could be bought, then it will cost more money to get out of the contract with a small press, so the book would have to have the potential of earning A LOT of money in order to make

Whatever floats our boats at the moment usually. It depends on whether we need to stick to a schedule, do edits, make calls, meet edits, look over contracts, etc., and if there’s Pitch contests coming up or something. All dependent on what’s happening!