For the record: "exclusive submission" means you are ONLY sending to that ONE agent. Exclusive has no other meaning here. #querytip

Also for some reason the sample text is interspersed with pics that appear to be pulled from Google Image Search? Don't do that. #querytip

Please, please, please DONT query more than one agent in an agency at a time. I don't like reading the same query more than once #querytip

#Querytip - It's helpful to keep all correspondence in the same email chain. Just reply and change the subj line re: requests, offers, etc!

I mean I'm happy to see characters w/ extraordinary abilities but please don't label them as "diversity"!!! #querytip #diversebooks

Nothing grabs me less than a prologue featuring Nameless Shadowy Council Members doing Vague Shadowy Things. #querytip

I don’t know. Maybe a picture book just shouldn’t be 2,600 words long? Maybe? #querytip

Writers, when you Q pls don't speak about yourselves in 3rd person. #pubtip

Whenever people say, “According to your website…” I think of high school papers that start with, “Webster’s dictionary defines…” #querytip

I love getting “Dear Sir or Madam” queries at my one-woman literary agency. It’s superb research. #querytip

If you have self-published a book via Amazon or other platforms, please don't call it "unpublished" in your query letters. #querytip

Instead of "she felt faint" SHOW us HOW she felt faint (i.e "The world spun around her, earth became sky and sky earth") #querytip #writetip

I think authors try to withhold info to spark curiosity, but to be curious/interested, I need to know what kind of story it is #querytip 4/4

ICYMI: "15 Things I’ve Learned about Publishing, Editing and Writing in 5 Years of Agenting." ow.ly/UtvFZ #pubtip

A query needs to tell me 1) quick set-up of who MC is, 2) inciting incident, 3) choice MC has to make, 4) stakes of the choice #querytip 3/?

...basically 300 words of set-up about the MC's backstory, then a line like "but then one day everything for MC changes," end #querytip 2/?

One prob I see w/ many queries is that they END just when the story gets interesting & then I have no idea what the plot is. #querytip 1/?

"Dear Agent"...wait, my name's not Agent. It's Lane, or Mr. Heymont. I'll even accept Ms. Heymont. At least it's my name lol. #querytip

Commenting on how "attractive" I am is not appropriate in a query. Just so you know, it's not appropriate to do with ANYONE. #querytip

No need to begin your query w/ "Hey, thanks for opening this query." Queries = how I find new talent. Thank YOU for thinking of me #querytip