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Category Archives: Queries
Monday Advice from Editors and Agents: Hooking a YA Agent
Many romance writers, even some with long backlists, are looking at fresh opportunities in the Young Adult market–more creative freedom (less restriction in story lines), the ability to reach a new audience (one that will grow up to become an audience … Continue reading
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Monday Advice from Agents and Editors: A Bitter Dose of Query Stats
Sarah LaPolla is an agent with the Bradford Literary Agency. She represents Adult, Middle Grade, and Young Adult manuscripts. Each year she tallies all the unsolicited (slush pile) queries she received and writes a post with the statistics. Many other … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Agents, Finding agents, Queries, Queries and Pitches, QueryTracker, Rejection, Rejections, Sarah LaPolla, Submission, Writing
Tagged Agent advice, Query statistics, Rejection, Writing queries
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Monday Advice from Editors and Agents: Make Queries Simple
Sue Miller is an agent with Donaghy Literary. She has previously worked with Scholastic Canada, the D4EO agency, and she hosted the Luso Reading Vox series at Dundas West Fest in Toronto. An admitted social media junkie, Sue has a … Continue reading
Monday Advice from Agents and Editors: Don’t Make Janet Reid Cry
Sorry to be posting a day late. Janet Reid is a very successful literary agent with FinePrint Literary Management who offers great advice to aspiring writers. Her blog has (at last count) 266 blog entries under the key words “query … Continue reading
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