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Adana K. Washington @adanawashington
Would publishers be opposed to a YA series that transitions from high fantasy to alternate history to urban fantasy? #askagent@adanawashington it totally depends on the book - Cloud Atlas is the ultimate genre mash-up but pulls it off so well #askagent
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@paper_geisha I'm afraid for the time being YA is my lower limit #askagent
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@eisen5585 depends - some authors do 2/3 others do more like 5/6! I recommend polishing a lot before submitting #askagent
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Duncan Harding @duncanharding
@mushenska do you like humour? Or should a debut novelist avoid humour on the whole? #askagent@duncanharding I like funny books but I think humour is SO subjective #askagent
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Elvin Mensah @elvinmensah
@mushenska I know The Book of Night Women is one of your fav novels, I was wondering if you read and/or enjoyed A Brief History of 7Killings@elvinmensah I did! I enjoyed it but not as much as Night Women - I tend not to love big sprawling multiple POV pieces in general #askagent
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T A Newman @TANewman_says
@mushenska is re-working a novel that didn't get picked up by #literaryagents a bad idea? #askagent@TANewman_says lots of agents not keen on looking twice at a project - but you can always try different agents #askagent
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Ben Jammin' @Singapore_Rice
@mushenska are you open to reading redrafted manuscripts you've previously rejected? #askagent@Singapore_Rice happy to see new projects by writers I have passed on though #askagent
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Duncan Harding @duncanharding
@mushenska if a project is close, but not right, should a writer move on to something new or keep refining? #askagent@duncanharding depends on specific feedback - often I think trying something new with what you have learned in mind is good #askagent
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Shona Kinsella @shona_kinsella
@mushenska do you have a word limit for books you might be interested in? #askagent@shona_kinsella shortest book I sold 50k longest 150k - most are around 100k #askagent
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Gerald Von Carstein @GVonCarstein
@mushenska #askagent How important are minimum wordcounts to you and your fellow agents when looking at a genre fiction query? #SciFi@GVonCarstein shortest book I sold was 50k longest was 150k - outside of that I'd start to worry #askagent
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Carl Steele @carlsteele84
can you recommend any events in Europe where a writer can pitch to agents? #askagent@carlsteele84 Bloomsbury getting published days and Writer's Workshop festival of writing #askagent
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M V Melcer @MVMelcer
@mushenska Thanks!600 subs/month??? o_o <faints> #askagent
@word_dust some are quieter than others though! #askagent