Our agency has submission guidelines for a reason. Please don’t query me outside of QueryManager or you will be wasting your time. #querytip
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Follow up to my earlier #querytip #writetip: WHY ARE STAKES IMPORTANT? B/c they give readers a reason to care about 1-what happens to the protagonist 2-what happens to the protagonist's group/world, or 3-the internal, seeing the protagonist's convictions/motivations tested.

I always find it difficult to pass on quality writing when I can't identify the stakes of the novel (OR more importantly STRONG ENOUGH stakes) in the query letter. I can't spend 5 hours reading & looking for them, so you have to tell me up front! #writetip #querytip #sellme

Aspiring authors, please use your Twitter to talk about what you are writing, what you are reading. Cute pics & occasional offtopicness fine, but acting like a retweet bot for extremist politics, of any kind, is brainless #literaryagents #querytip

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I've been encountering this A Lot lately. It tells me either you can't follow guidelines, which are there for a reason, or you're calling an agent whose website you haven't been to. If you do it repeatedly, it even gets a touch creepy. Please don't do this. #subtip #querytip

Hi! I feel like this should go without saying, but please do not call (especially repeatedly) with your name and number and ask us to call you back because you need an agent. If you can google our number, you can google our submissions inbox. #querytip #subtip

Hello, comp titles can be good, but your query should be about your book, not other people's books! Don't tell me what other books are about, what is yours about! Don't list other people's books first! Serve your work, pals, by focusing on your work in-query!! #subtip #querytip

#subtip #querytip Agents and publishers are different. I cannot publish your book, I work at an agency. Agencies do not publish books. This has been a public service announcement.

Shouldn't have to share this #querytip but welp. Also, I can't tell you how many people have asked when I'll be "promoted" to editing adult books. 👹

#PubTip #QueryTip #Debuts Be aware of publisher expectations for word count for the particular genre/age group you are querying. 166K is an auto no. Yes, there are high word counts out there, but those authors are proven entities.

Above all, NEVER take a NO as a reason to stop writing.The more you read&write, the better you get.Turning away from your potential because of 1title's inability to fly would be huge mistake.
Keep reading. Keep writing. Pay attention. You WILL do better,I promise. #querytip /End

Love yourself for writing that backburnered book. Thank yourself for being willing to step back, for being willing to move on, for caring enough about your career to not get stuck on that one title.
You are more than this one book. You were born to write your next book, too. /9

DO NOT beat yourself up for the book that did not soar the way you envisioned it at the beginning. You can't control the market, or competing titles, or agent/editor wishlists, and you can only learn as fast as you do. Every book has a purpose, even the one in the drawer. /8

Always, always look to your next book. This book maybe had flawless characters - you want to be known for that? Great! Do it again.
Do it even better in next book, this time avoiding whatever pitfalls held you back. LEARN from these books. Love them. But whatever you do... /7

So please try not to despair when book has gone the rounds of submissions &stuck nowhere, or when it must be put away despite the love you poured into it. You KNOW your next book will be better-It always is. This book needed to happen, regardless of whether it ever made print. /6

In this next book, your characters will be even MORE real. Stronger. Passionate. Driven. Decisive.
Your settings more vibrant. Interactive. Tangible.
Your stakes higher,your plot smoother, your dialogue snappier.
Your next book (or the next) is the one you want on the shelves. /5

But when you crack open the pages of your next manuscript, you'll realize that those first relationships taught you HOW & WHY. Those first plots showed you WHEN, WHAT, & WHERE. That book in the drawer isn't a failed endeavor; it's a steppingstone, a learning process, a class. /4

These books are NOT WASTED TIME. These books are the ones where you more deeply, thoroughly explored your creativity. Where you fell in love w/a character & learned how potent those author-character relationships can be. Of COURSE you want to see every project on the shelves. /3

Some of these books may get requested & rejected, or never requested, or represented and then shelved when they fail to sell, or published and sell an unimpressive number of copies no matter what you try to do to make it fly. You wonder why? & it's so very hard to move on. /2