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: Can I query a book in two countries simultaneously? Can I send a query to agents in non-English speaking country and translated version to agents in English country at the same time? I assume
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: How can I know that I'm not plagiarizing? New to the web. I just recently started to write again. I won a few highschool prizes writing short stories. Around the same time, I began to play
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: Should Person Write Query Letter and Synopsis in Chronological Order Even Though Story is Told in Pieces I am attempting to write my first novel, a historical fiction. To help focus my story,
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: Does Blind Querying Literary Agents Actually Work? Is That How Authors Find Agents? I have been BLIND QUERYING agents for nearly three years to no avail, and I am wondering if this approach
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: Can you pitch an outline? Here's my question: can you pitch an outline of a novel to an agent? I.e. you have two to three chapters complete to a high standard and at full outline of the
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: Should one invest in a professional editor before querying? Let's say you have completed a novel. Since you're not totally naive, you have also complete a few drafts, where with "few" I mean
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: Is it acceptable to include articles written for assignments in one's portfolio? Background: I'm coming from science and will start trying my luck at science journalism. I already have clips
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: Multiple Books in a Single Query I recently decided to make a long delayed return to a genre where I had early publishing success, upper-level picture books. Given that I now have school-aged
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: Ensemble cast novel - pitch and synopsis My mystery novel features an ensemble cast of seven characters. Since I can't talk about all of them in the short span of the query letter, I've decided
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: Forum to Get Feedback on Queries I'm a big fan of query letters, and have had great success getting reads with them in the past. But it's been over a decade since I've queried any fiction,
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: What is the "Proposal" Part of a Query Letter? I'm trying to follow query guidelines that include a query letter, proposal, outline, author bio, and sample chapters. What is the 'proposal' part
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: Can I retell a popular manga series as a novel and query it to an agent? I’m working on my first draft of a retelling of a popular manga series from the 90s. It has been adapted and
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: How can I determine good comparative titles to include in my query letter? Typically, a writer includes one or two recent titles that are similar in some fashion to the story they are telling,
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: Giving a character a name that is based on his storyline I'm trying to find an appropriate name for my main character. I want his name to reflect his personality and symbolize certain aspects
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: What are typical response rates to non-fiction queries? I've begun sending out queries to agents for my recently completed non-fiction manuscript. A decade ago, I sent out queries frequently,
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: Tense in a query letter, synopsis, outline When writing fiction, we generally use past tense for the narration and present tense for dialogue. When you are done with a fiction novel and are
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: Are idioms in query letters a bad idea? I am writing a logline sentence of a query letter for my novel and used the idiom 'cat and mouse' as follows: A military bioweapons collector
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: How to know the quality of query letter critiques? Having nearly completed the second draft on my 135,000 word novel, I am now seeking critiques of my query letter before I submit them to
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: How can I get reader profiles? How can I get a reader profile for a publishing category i.e. criminal justice, social justice?
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: If I have a cover for my novel, when should I let the publisher/agent know? I've run into an issue with illustrations and cover designs. I have a member of my family who designs covers to
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: What to do when my preview exceeds the requested submission length? One of the agents I intend to query to requests the first fifty pages be attached to the query email. When I formatted the
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: Should my query lead with the detective, or with the crime? In a lot of detective or mystery novels, the detective is the POV character and the protagonist, but the initial hook has little
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: What is the Normal Process for Gathering Permissions for Quotation Collections I am contemplating gathering a collection of quotations from a single writer, similar to The Quotable [C.S.] Lewis
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 only very limited experience. Should you write about
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