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Elana A. Mugdan 🐉 @dragonspleen
@UweStenderPhD I hear varying opinions of how long one's summary within one's query letter should be. (I also hear varying opinions of how to structure a query letter.) In your opinion, what's the ideal length of the short summary and the full query itself?If I have to start scrolling too much, my eyes glaze ove, and I will reject. I can't speak for others.
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Aneta Cruz @AnetaCruz
@UweStenderPhD If I'm Czech and am writing about a Czech MC, w/Czech settings, culture, cuisine, etc., I am allowed to use the hashtag #ownvoices (though I'm not sure how it would benefit me)?I wouldn't use the hashtag, but you should mention in your query you are Czech & thus are informed about what you write. I dislike nothing more than someone querying me a Germany based thriller etc, but they can't even get a simple German sentence correct. Googletranslate sucks.
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K. Alice Sandry @katealicesandry
@UweStenderPhD When you send an author and R&R, how long do you reasonably expect it will take (short end-long end)? #askagentNo rush at all. I want perfection, not speed.
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Shannan Williams @enlightenedpen
@UweStenderPhD Thanks for doing this. Are you an editorial agent? If not how do you help your clients prepare for submission?I am an editorial agent. At #Teamtriada, we all are.
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J.C. Cooksey @After_Dark_Arts
@UweStenderPhD @Claribel_Ortega Is connecting to voice really subjective or is indicative of a lack of technical skill?For me it is subjective, like which song I like, or which movie, or which TV show, etc.
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Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan, Author @ElizPagelHogan
@UweStenderPhD Do you think most conferences are organized the best way to help writers and illustrators?I don't know, I only attend 3 or 4 a year, so I can't judge "most." But at the ones I have attended, writers for sure. I have not met an illustrator at a conference.
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Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan, Author @ElizPagelHogan
@UweStenderPhD @RedPenKaitlyn What's your favorite and least favorite part of conferences?Meeting the writers face to face. Telling them that I am not interested in their pitched project.
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Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan, Author @ElizPagelHogan
@UweStenderPhD @RedPenKaitlyn Have you ever accepted a story full of typos (but loved the story)?No, because I will have stopped reading after page 1 or 2. Likely 1.
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LC Milburn @LCMilburn
@UweStenderPhD I received several editor likes in a recent pitch contest (hooray!). But my full MS is also out w/ agents right now. I haven’t sent to the editors b/c I’ve heard this could be a prob w/ agents if the publisher rejects. What should I do?Well done, but I wouldn't overreact to a like. Once you have an agent offer and signed on with an agent, you can tell them which editors gave it a like, then they can pursue the lead.
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Vanessa @vanessaepeay
@UweStenderPhD When you take a client on submission what is your process? #askagentAfter I make sure the manuscript is as perfect as it can be, I query the editors whom I believe will love the project.
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Linsey Knerl @LKnerl
@UweStenderPhD When reading Publisher's Weekly, many of the supernatural thriller titles seem more like horror and vice-versa, but they are marketed distinctly. What elements are unique to each, so that we don't pitch the wrong genre to agents? Thx!I don't know. Since it mixes genres "supernatural" and "thriller", it is a mixed bag from the get go.
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Laura Tatum @babybeachblues
@UweStenderPhD How would you best encourage a teen(15yo) fantasy writer?Tell them to write and keep writing.
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Jodelle Soon Brohard @Jodelle55
@UweStenderPhD Do you have any topics or types of books that editors are asking for right now?I do, and there are too many to mention.