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Are agents too busy for new clients? What should I do next?
As a first time writer, most publishers insist that you approach via a literary agent. However, all the literary agents I have contacted claim to be too busy to take on new clients, as they receive ...
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How to summarize prolonged plot
I'm trying to write a summary of my book's plot for a query letter to literary agents, but my plot is extremely hard to summarize.
The reason is that the plot is fast-paced, erratic, and constantly ...
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What is a log line, and why are they bad?
The question is as per the title.
I read about log lines on Query shark. Now I know what Wikipedia says about them, but I'm still not sure what they are, and why are they bad for writers / queries?
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Querying for a setting-heavy speculative fiction novel
I'm an attentive follower of Janet Reid's Query Shark, and I've learned a lot. But Reid doesn't represent speculative fiction, which seems to present wrinkles of its own.
Particularly, Query Shark ...
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Waiting for response to full MS
About three months ago, an agent that I had queried responded with a request for the full manuscript of the novel that I had written to her about. It's now been nearly three months, and I haven't ...
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Where can I find sales numbers for books?
I'm a writer, working on a non-fiction book proposal. Finding public, free sales numbers for comparable titles is nearly impossible. BookScan is a subscriber service run by Nielsen. "Above the ...
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How do you write a fiction or non-fiction query letter to an editor?
What do you put in the letter? What if you have no experience or very limited experience. Should you write about yourself in the third or first person when explaining your experience?
