#querytip Don't: send a query to 20+ agents in the same email asking us to fight over who gets to work with you and demand a response in a set time. Do: your research, send personalized emails to each agent, take note of individual submission guidelines and response times.

Today's #pubtip thread is about rejections. For more than 11 years, I have spent every working day both dishing out and receiving multiple rejections daily. It's given me Opinions on how to reject others well & a lot of judgment about people who do it badly. Boo, you people. Boo

What Makes a Successful Author? #PubTip #WriteTip #WednesdayWisdom youtu.be/lJ1oVk4d_yY via @YouTube

Hey pals, please don't try to cut in the query line. #querytip #subtip especially if your submission has only been in our inbox for like a week. I love you, but you have to wait your turn.

My #pubtip tweet thread loyalists :royal wave: will recall that I look at clients and potential clients as a microbiome - a teeming multivariable entity of strengths and weaknesses. Qualifications, authority, voice, marketability, charisma - I’m thinking about them all.

#Pubtip Remember that while one trope or sub-genre might work for one publisher, it does not mean it will work for someone else. Each publisher has their own unique market and following!

This is subjective, but addressing the reader or having a character question themselves to the reader is a big no-no for me. It immediately pulls me out of your manuscript and reminds me that I'm not actively living in your book with the MC. It creates a disconnect! #querytip

When you've only read the old classics, it's really apparent. The beginning usually starts as if an elder was opening up a book and setting the stage for a story, and this is not what's selling today. Dive into the action and your character. Read recent publications! #querytip

Utilizing all of a character's senses is essential to world building. What do they see, smell, hear, touch? What would they pruposely notice by using these senses? When you only use one sense to describe worlds, it comes off flat and dull. This includes characters, too! #querytip

#querytip only pitch one book in your query! It doesn’t matter if you have a sequel or trilogy or ten books planned—I want to know what happens in THIS book, that THIS book is solid and engaging.

You’re pitching ONE book—don’t waste query space explaining the entire series.

#querytip The query email's subject line is important to me. I suggest:

Query: [TITLE IN CAPS]

Try to grab my attention, even if it's just in the title. Keep it simple, make it powerful.

Today's #pubtip: among first-time authors, I think *the* most common source of surprise and disappointment is the book tour or lack thereof. This is where I truly want to kill shows like The Affair and, well, any other popular media depiction of the book publishing experience.

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Loves of mine, if you see one of my #mswl tweets, why would you send your query to.... my colleague? But reference my tweet as the reason you're querying? What are you doing, duckies? #subtip #querytip

This weekend, I'm really trying to catch-up on my query inbox. Embarrassingly, I do have outstanding queries from the beginning of 2018. I advise all #queriers: if you don't have anything nice to say, plz don't say anything at all. #querytip

Basically your number one job as a writer is to make sure your reader never says Then Who Cares about your characters/plot. #pubtip

When writing your manuscript, editing, and querying, be aware of the accepted word count lengths! I really don't want to read a 250k word epic fantasy or a 100k word MG. This article from Writer's Digest is great, but YA leans more 70-90k now! #querytip writersdigest.com/guest-columns/…

A synopsis should include the ending, while the query should not. The query should intrigue the reader, while the synopsis should tell them major details. There is a difference, and a different purpose! Another great article from @JaneFriedman #querytip janefriedman.com/how-to-write-a…

Many writers don't know the difference between a query and a synopsis, or sometimes try to overlap the two and don't understand they're separate entities that serve different purposes. Here's a great article on crafting a query from @JaneFriedman #querytip janefriedman.com/query-letters/

#Querytip 1) What does your character want? 2) What is standing in their way of getting it? 3) What are they going to attempt to do to overcome that obstacle (or obstacles)? The answers to these three questions should be the meat of your summary.