A synopsis is not the same thing as a query letter #querytip

I'm getting some great This Is Where I Leave You comps in the slush pile this week! More of this please! All the family drama. #querytip

#querytip Excessively complimenting agents in your query is awkward because you don't actually know us at all. Just who we are online.

Queries that start with: "You haven't read a query like this before..."

I have. #querytip

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#PubTip = before asking someone to beta read, make sure they've read 2-3 books in your genre (recent books - not books from 1980).

2/2 There are no *true* consequences. The MC is already dead. Game over. The end. OR the story isn't real. NONE of it happened! #querytip

I *HATE* films and novels where the MC is already dead o the story takes place in virtual reality, dreams, or afterlife. Why, you ask? 1/2

#pubtip Remember that social media is not where we generally submit manuscripts. Read those submission guidelines!

Calling your book a crossover is like calling yourself beautiful: better when someone else does it #querytip

Can deliberately misleading an agent into reading your query ever work? #QueryTip

#querytip Some version of "self-publishing didn't go the way I thought it would" isn't the best way to get an agent interested in your MS

If yr query is all about how great a TV adaptation of yr book would be, I'm going to assume yr expectations are unrealistic &pass. #querytip

50,000 words is barely a novel. 250,000 words is a mind-numbing epic. Know the generally accepted word counts 4 your genre. Okay? #querytip

Don't tell us what we'll get from your book. Don't presume you understand the way we think. Or how we see your world. Or our own. #querytip

If your MC is stuck sweeping chimneys there better be a damn good reason. People don't do things they don't want to "just becuz". #querytip

"She encounters something scary..." Okay...what? A talking toaster? A debt collector? Be specific. A query shouldn't be a mystery. #querytip

Telling me your book will change the world is a big DON'T DO. At best, you're lying to yourself. At worst, you're delusional. #querytip

"Through a series of events.." has no place in a query. It tells us nothing except you cannot write an effective query. #querytip #queryfail

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