Not at all necessary unless it’s part of your platform

Querying!

Yes but to varying degrees of success bc our ability to sell (and possibly our faith in salability) has been decreased

You need someone who reps what you write. It doesn’t need to be their primary focus. They just need to know it well

It’s just not necessary or required

I really only want scary, or so unique it’ll blow me away

Formatting separates them

That’s not an answer I can make for you but I can say if you are getting all form rejections based on the query something likely isn’t working there or in the opening pages. If you are getting them after requests likely the middle has an issue.

I don’t have statistics but this does happen and it’s always hard to do

Development edit is an overview edit of the strengths and weaknesses of a manuscript.
Is one needed before you submit to agents? Not necessarily, but the MS should be workshopped either with critque partners or beta readers or some other eyes besides yours or family members 😉

General formatting for manuscripts is 12 pt Times New Roman or similar font, black “ink”, double spaced, 1 inch margins, and paragraphs indented. If there is a need for sections to be center justified than do what needs to be done

Twitter followers don’t mean anything to me. Same with profile pic. The only thing I pay attention to on Twitter is how someone treats other people (meaning I don’t like trolls). But numbers aren’t as important in fiction and that’s mostly what I do

Well I think that varies on age group & genre expectations so there’s no one hard fast answer.
At its core, publishing is a business & books are a product—I know it’s hard to think about art in these terms and it’s uncomfortable but that’s the reality

I think 40k-60k is kind of the sweet spot for most MG… as for how many? That’s a personal preference. I know some writers send batches out in 10s some more some less, you have to do with what you are comfortable with.

I think it depends on a number of factors ❤️
It’s important to be kind to yourself and try not compare your journey to someone else’s — there is no one path to publishing ❤️

I think there is a lot to unpack here that I couldn’t do much justice in a single tweet. I will say for me, I look at each book sent to me as it’s own thing and if I love it all that other stuff is just details we may have to figure out

I don’t think there is any hard fast data on this and would have a number of variables.
I’ve had it work out a number of times ❤️

I think the trick with any genre is to make sure you have a solid and distinct hook

Well you would first want to figure out what the genre is (and if it is considered a romance or not) and then target agents who represent that genre.

I consider “literary” to be the tone or mood of the story and has a lot to do with the voice.
Whether it is a “harder sell” or not would be determined on a number of factors including content/concept etc