Love this!!! #pubtip #amagenting

#QueryTip I try to be accessible on Twitter, but sometimes I miss a Tweet or a DM. If you wish to query me, please send a query letter + the first 10 pgs. or PB ms pasted into the email to soloway@andreabrownlit.com. You will get an auto confirmation. Good luck! #amquerying

Query Box update: I am caught up to Aug. 1.

I do also have 21 queries in my Still Thinking box. So if you haven't gotten a response yet, crossed fingers. #amquerying #querytip #amagenting

An excellent thread by @agentsaba. Thank you for taking the time to put this together! #pubtip #WritingLife

Biggest issue I see in my queries today: Lots of stories on sub that just follow the meandering path of a typical person's life. Sure, there may be some moral lesson there, but I'm looking for a conflict or story problem to drive the plot. #querytip #writetip

A #querytip: the categories an agent says they do and do not represent ultimately trump the themes and qualities they describe liking. Your romance novel may be about intimacy and obsession, but romance isn't a category that I work in, so I wouldn't be the right agent for it!

#PubTip = I've heard this mantra about publicity for years and just wanted to share:

- What works (in publicity) every time? Word of Mouth
- How do we control Word of Mouth? We can't, alas

So we put together a publicity campaign to elevate visibility and...hope.
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The first open door is not automatically always the best one to go through. Make sure you do your research on editors, agents and publishers so you can make a wise choice and find a good match.

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Whenever someone tells me in their query that they "know this isn't what I represent" I know they will wrongly assume why the query was rejected. Also, they are never correct in their assumptions about what I rep. #querytip

Word counts are all over the place today. Does no one research industry standard anymore? #amquerying #querytip #amagenting

Responding to a nice personalized rejection on a query with arrogance and borderline threat is not the way to make someone reconsider. It is, however, a good way to get blocked. #pubtip

When submitting a MS, please double space your work. It's easier on my eyes and helps me with adding comments/notes that I might what to discuss. Also, you don't have to do any fancy formatting with font and stylizing the pages. It's a MS not a published book. #querytip #pubtip

☕Coffee Time With Kara☕ Five Query Essentials. #QueryTip #AmQuerying #AmWriting #EditorTip #AskanEditor #PubTip #GetPublished #ACFW #MondayBlogs ow.ly/CqZi30kzohs

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I have really bad eyesight, please use readable fonts at readable sizes. I should not have to zoom to 80% to read your query. Please, I have very bad eyes. Thanks. #querytip #subtip

Please don't say you've met me, when I KNOW we haven't met because I've never been to the place where you said we'd met. #pubtip #amquerying #amwriting

Incomplete sentences make me twitchy. Every now and then for voice or emphasis, I can let them slide, but too many and I get this eye twitch thing going... #querytip

When you write a synopsis for an editor or agent, spoil every single twist and turn. Don't tease.

When you write a review, mention the good and bad without spoiling.

When you write promotional material, book blurbs or back cover copy, tease like crazy but don't spoil.

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I love genre bending manuscripts, but if you're using 4 different genres to describe your manuscript it might be too much. #querytip

A great way to ensure I’ll never look at your query is if you send me a 7 day countdown to when you’ll be sending it. #querytip