TheBanyanTree: Writing a Query

[Monique Colver]

Ah, so they would have you believe. True, it's much more likely something
will happen if you have a name, and a platform, or if you've murdered
someone, or made a sex tape. But I know a few agents, I've talked to them at
conferences, and some have asked me to send a query, and they go to
conferences in order to find writers with a book(s) to sell. They want good
new writers.

I am a good writer. Ergo, they'd be happy to have me, once I find a good
fit.

They receive so many queries and proposals and letters every day that it's a
daunting task just to weed through it, and the trick is to find the right
agent/publisher for whatever it is I'm doing. But I see it happen with
people I know all the time. Maybe it won't for me, too soon to tell, but it
might.




Monique Colver




On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:39 AM, spoonoid <spoonoid at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Monique:
>
> Incredible -- is the word I would use to describe the lack of interest the
> agents and editors express for an unknown author's manuscript. They want to
> concentrate on writers with a proven audience or a "platform," which means
> you
> are already famous, are a celebrity, politician, or criminal.
> Self-publishing today is much more respectable than it was a few short
> years
> ago. But watch out for vanity publishers and respectable looking
> "self-publishers." Read the book "The Fine Print of Self-Publishing" by
> Mark
> Levine.
>
> Later, John.
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