☕Coffee Time With Kara☕ Five Query Essentials. #QueryTip #AmQuerying #AmWriting #EditorTip #AskanEditor #PubTip #GetPublished #ACFW #MondayBlogs ow.ly/vsxS30lVErF

Reading submissions, I’m struck by the potential I see every day. Despite what your authorial insecurities might tell you, agents are not gleefully tossing projects in the bin. Most of my rejections are because the author and/or project isn’t ready. #querytip

Another #querytip from our slush pile this morning. Note the genre and market of your manuscript in your query letter. For instance Contemporary YA. Adult Fantasy.

Going through queries this morning. #querytip Don’t take away from your story by sending query in italics. It’s so hard to read.

Hi! When querying, please don't try to BAIT agents into responding. Read our submission guidelines. And don't, I dunno, suggest that I (fully Jewish, not that it matters) might be complicit in the spread of anti-Semitism because I haven't scooped up your Zionist novel. #querytip

Hey queriers! We’re switching our email servers this weekend, so it may not be the best time to query. Maybe wait till next week? #querytip

Hi writers, even if it’s been awhile, make sure to let all the agents you queried (or at least those who have requested your manuscript) if you have an offer of rep. Could lead to more! #querytip

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