I make things up and write them down. I hope one day someone will read them and believe me, and then print out a copy for someone else to read. Until then, would you believe me if I told you
If he literally pissed off the Devil in the process, he’d be standing on top of the Devil and urinating off him while simultaneously falling in love with a vampire whose soul he just replaced.
- Fragment of a query critique over at BookEnds, “Workshop Wednesday.”
(Source: bookendslitagency.blogspot.com)
If you’re working on your query and finding it hard to come up with something that makes your book sound special, maybe it’s that your book isn’t special.
- Jessica Faust, literary agent
(Source: bookendslitagency.blogspot.com)
Note: this has to do with July, August and the start of September.
Weeks to Avoid: July 11, 18% on vacation, July 25, 11% on vacation, August 1, 11% on vacation, September 5 (week of Labor Day), 10% on vacation, September 12, 13% on vacation.
The Best Weeks: August 15, 6% on vacation; August 22, 4% on vacation.”
What’s a couple more weeks of editing to be certain?
If you ever get the chance to submit your novel directly to an editor, think twice. You get only one shot as Kristin Nelson explains:
First being that editors who take submissions directly log those submissions. So if one editor has passed, it will be on record so that pretty much nixes it for any other editor at that imprint.
… even if that newer editor loves it, she’s going to have to get second reads and support to take it to ed. Board. Well, if that senior editor nixed it and then it pops up again, well, it’s going to get shot down again. And on top of that, the newer editor is not going to have very warm feelings toward you for putting her in an awkward position.
(Source: pubrants.blogspot.com)
Below, I’m including a short sample from the middle of the book.
- Jennifer Jackson, “… sentences that should not have appeared in my queries (if the writers had read submission guidelines).”
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