#querytip: don't get meta. You're right: I HAVE seen it all...except your book. Tell me about your book, not about how boring queries are!

Sorry, but no one cares in what grade you started writing. #querytip

"Please consider representing my book with the goal of getting a movie option" = still not an effective pitch. Sigh. #querytip

Consistently surprised how often new authors open their novels with a dream. Risk jerking the pace around upon wake up. #writetip #querytip

#querytip How seriously would you take someone who didn't take the time to learn your name before approaching you in a professional setting?

And, as a general rule, dissing other books or entire genres in query letters is frowned upon. #querytip

Also I really recommend NOT telling me that your book has zero commercial appeal. #querytip

Describing your writing skills instead of your story is not a good use of your query letter. #querytip

DO pitch a book. DO pitch a book as standalone with series potential. DO NOT pitch a series in one fell swoop. #querytip

General #querytip/#pubtip on genre/age: Think where you want readers to find it on the shelf. THAT is your genre/age group. #BookEndsChat

Regarding rejections #querytip We have signed clients that received #pass on initial queried work. #KeeptheFaith Keep writing.Writers write

#querytip I'm not saying don't name your protagonist after yourself, but.

But.

For the record: "exclusive submission" means you are ONLY sending to that ONE agent. Exclusive has no other meaning here. #querytip

Also for some reason the sample text is interspersed with pics that appear to be pulled from Google Image Search? Don't do that. #querytip

Please, please, please DONT query more than one agent in an agency at a time. I don't like reading the same query more than once #querytip

#Querytip - It's helpful to keep all correspondence in the same email chain. Just reply and change the subj line re: requests, offers, etc!

I mean I'm happy to see characters w/ extraordinary abilities but please don't label them as "diversity"!!! #querytip #diversebooks

Nothing grabs me less than a prologue featuring Nameless Shadowy Council Members doing Vague Shadowy Things. #querytip

I don’t know. Maybe a picture book just shouldn’t be 2,600 words long? Maybe? #querytip

Whenever people say, “According to your website…” I think of high school papers that start with, “Webster’s dictionary defines…” #querytip