The Shocking Query Mistakes That Could Doom Your Book Before Agents Ever Read It – Avoid These Now!
Through a local writing group in Edinburgh, I met Lynne, who is a literary agent, and we now meet for coffee every so often. Whilst she says she “would never, ever represent me as I’d be hard work,” – which I choose to take as a compliment – she does share quite a lot of insight with me
So, here are some common mistakes that authors make that she has told me about:
QUERYING AN AGENT WHO DOES NOT REPRESENT YOUR BOOK’S GENRE
Lynne represents all kinds of romance authors, excluding Romantasy. This week, she has had 12 crime thrillers, 15 romantasy, 10 apocalyptic thrillers (there are a lot of these just now – maybe to do with the times we’re living in), and 3 werewolf/billionaire manuscripts appear in her inbox. These get an automatic rejection.
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