Alas, I fear that I’m being out-maneuvered by a certain famous
literary agent with a blog. He seems to be CHIPping away at my market share.
Apparently I should be posting here more often, so…here goes nothing.
As a writer, I know well the struggles of submitting work to
agents and editors. Every agency and publisher has a prescribed process for
submissions, and sometimes you’ll get ambitious and send off a dozen queries at
a time. How do you follow all of the guidelines, without driving yourself
crazy?
Early on, I decided that I would make it ridiculously simple
to submit a query. I created a form that asks you to fill in the blanks for ten
questions: Name, title, genre, synopsis, target audience, moral or spiritual
lesson (if any), word count, manuscript status (is it complete?) brief bio, and
source (where did you find me?) Keep it to one page, single-spaced. Make it
easy for me, and perhaps you’ll be rewarded with an offer of representation.
How hard can it be?
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