SO TRUE! Also if you say your book is YA/Adult. #querytip

#Writers! @CorvisieroLit will be closing to queries from Nov 30 to Jan 2! Be sure to get your queries in before you have to wait until the new year 😆 #amquerying #querytip #amwriting #amediting #amreading #amagenting

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When you tell me your book is MG/YA, it sends the message that you haven't done enough research. Remember, your book can only sit on one shelf. So which one is it? #querytip

Similarly, if you do query one agent, don't immediately send a followup email saying, "Sorry, I actually meant this one." If the person in submissions is me, the agent will think it's funny. If it's someone else, you know... they may not. #subtip #querytip Be intentional, please.

#querytip If an agent rejects you because of your word count, please don’t resubmit your query with the exact same pages and word count, only changing your query to now list all of the ridiculous reasons the agent is supposedly wrong and you are supposedly right. #Nope

#Querytip when you receive a rejection try to maintain a level of professionalism when writing a response (note: a response is not necessary). Insulting someone just shows that the agent made the right decision in rejecting you. #thinkfirst

#subtip #querytip - please don't add industry folks to your email subscription without their permission. This goes for any industry, but ask agents, editors, reviewers, etc. before you do that, please. It's just polite.

If you accept an offer of representation, please email the other agents you queried to remove your manuscript from consideration. #querytip #amquerying

In the publishing world "no" doesn't mean "never". So don't let a rejection stop you in your tracks. Let it push you forward to grow as a writer and make the next book the one that will sell or to find the right match for the rejected book. #PubTip

Published Author #PubTip =

If your agent/ publisher has sold audiobook rights for you, that's GREAT!

Please please please please please promote the audiobook on your website including narrator and buy-links!!

@JaleighJohnson does it correctly here: jaleighjohnson.com/the-mark-of-th…

Note: NLA will be CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS for the month of December.
Queries sent after 5:00 pm MST Friday, November 30, 2018, will not be read. Please plan to query us after 8:00 am MST Wednesday, January 2, 2019. Happy Holidays! #querytip

If you have always wanted to try to write Middle Grade, now is the time. #querytip

#QueryTip If you get a request for a full or partial manuscript...

Before you send, do one final review and accept all track changes + remove any reader comments, etc., from the draft. #amquerying

Update: I’m completely caught up on all queries and working my way through a bunch of exciting submissions from October 10th. #Querytip #QueryUpdate

I have received several queries saying a person I don't know has "referred" them to me, and while queries are good regardless, this feels weird. It's not a strike against the writers, but I fear they think there's a connection when there's not. #pubtip

Adding to this, if you insist on including the five pages from the middle of the book in your query instead of the first five pages (as requested), you need a new beginning. If you can't win a reader over in the beginning, it doesn't matter how great pages 110-115 are. #querytip

Just a reminder... I don't open attachments unless I've requested them. Sending me your query as an attachment means I won't get to read it. ☹️ #amquerying #pubtip #amagenting

Quick little #querytip: if you call an agency to ask about their submission process, and someone kindly takes the time to walk you through it, don't HANG UP when they say they'll have to read your letter before they decide. Can't wait to put your query right in the trash!

If you MIGHT be interested in requerying an agent one day down the road, it MIGHT not be in your best interest to respond to their personalized rejection telling them you “might” consider querying them with your next project. You never know when they MIGHT remember you. #querytip