I’m trying my best lol but def cross me off if you have been waiting too long and i deserve that! Don’t wanna hold anyone up

I don’t think so! I don’t do much adult anymore but seems people still love reading it so i hope editors are still buying. But yeah some words do get people skeptical.

If I’m making them, scrambled. If a restaurant, poached. I prefer scrambled but most places make them too dry

It never NEEDS to be professionally edited—from an agents POV. This doesn’t mean an author wouldn’t benefit from one if they can afford and think it’d be helpful to them. But critique partners and beta readers are great and i think those are great resources as well

I want some more lol i mean i think readers are still into it maybe editors are experiencing fatigue but still wanna bring it to readers hands

All the advice on how to find a literary agent 👇
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(More properly I consider fiction 'on referral or by solicitation', which includes me saying sure okay here on Twitter, so if you don't have a way of getting a referral feel free to ask here. I am not trying to put obstacles in your way, I just need to stem the volume.) #AskFuse

I also was closed to queries for much of this year, so that skews things a bit. In general over the course of my career I'd say about 75% of my fiction clients have come out of the slush pile. These days I only consider fiction on referral, because it's v time-intensive! #AskFuse

I have a whooooole lot of manuscripts requested out of the slush in my to-read pile, though, so the figure for this year may very well go up before New Year's. #AskFuse

For reference, of my nine current fiction clients: 4 came out of the slush, 3 were referrals, and 2 were people I met at conventions whose shorter-form work I'd already read. #AskFuse

Oh, thousands. How many I sign out of the slush really varies, though. This year only one so far, but in part that's because I did a lot more nonfiction this year, and NF more frequently involves solicitation on the agent's part than fiction does. #AskFuse twitter.com/thelindsayelli…

Voice, plot, and character are the most important things to me, provided you're a strong writer. Line-level issues can be handled in editing. I've had books I sent off with very few changes and books where we rewrote everything together. #AskFuse twitter.com/sarafinn11/sta…

You can absolutely just Google around! An agency will typically have query instructions on their website. These vary by agency & sometimes by agent, so double-check -- & make sure you research the agent, because there are scammers out there! #AskFuse twitter.com/feathersandwax…

This HUGELY depends on genre. In fiction my genre is SF/F, and I'd say in my experience the best cons to meet agents for that are the Nebulas and World Fantasy. Worldcon is also great but it's a lot busier for agents who have clients present. #AskFuse twitter.com/cwbuecheler/st…

That's really your call! I tend to advise against a professional edit unless you really feel you need help. I don't think it's necessary by any means, though it can certainly be helpful! Don't do it because you think it's a box you have to check. #AskFuse twitter.com/MasterOfGum/st…

Yes, there's a huge MG demand. It sells well, + there's an ever-growing market for it. #askagent I'm considering also representing MG--to be determined, in the weeks to come.

This depends entirely on the concept in the book. I'd evaluate more whether the concept has book-length potential; a different question than whether it has been overly-publicized. A lot of treatment in already-printed spaces may mean that there's no need for a book. #askagent

There's so much that goes into the evaluation of a non-fiction project--the ease with which an author-publisher-marketing team can place the book on the market is first and foremost worthwhile, within this evaluation. #askagent

This depends entirely on the book, but 5k+ on the self-published end is distinct + worthwhile noticing, to start, though there are authors that break-out on the self-publishing market with distinctly more sales. As an agent, I'd be looking at platform + sale potential. #askagent

It can be the nerdiest or geekest or trivial kind of angle, + some of the best memoirs are "quiet" in that way, relative to others, but I'm hungry for the story that I've never seen before. I should want to be able to share your story, given that it's a real story. #askagent

If I want to tell my friends over dinner about you, then we've got a conversation to be had. It's not memoir territory, but, for example, I stumbled upon this research (amzn.to/2NDNpl8), + given that I'm writing a novel about martyrs, talked about it for weeks. #askagent