5 Easy Things You Can Do to Avoid Rejection

It’s widely known that agents (and editors) are inundated with queries and submissions. I scroll through my query inbox at least once a week and probably reject 98% of what comes in. Some of these rejections might have been avoided, at least leading me to consider the query seriously. Here are some obvious common mistakes […]
Query Killers

Writers are always asking for advice about how to write the query that will help them land an agent. I used a recent mega-session of reviewing submissions to draw up a list of reasons why I say no. So here it is, in no particular order, my list of Query Killers to avoid if you […]