Pitches and Queries: Be Specific with Plot Details
"Yes, it's hard to summarize. Maybe your main character is facing a half dozen dangers. Go ahead and pick 1-3, either the initial problem or the most interesting plot elements."
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I guarantee agents see things such as "she faces grave dangers to reach her destiny" every day, so tell them how your book is different by being specific about what dangers and what destiny the character faces. https://lttr.ai/AdJdN
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Pitches and Queries: How to Handle World Building - An exercise helps writers find the best power words to quickly indicate the world building in their query letters.
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Pitches and Queries: Avoid saying things in a way that could apply to a thousand other manuscripts out there, such as "she faces grave dangers to reach her destiny." Agents see that every day, so tell them ...
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Pitches and Queries: How to Handle World Building - 'Do some words jump out at you as “power words” that grab attention quickly and hint at the world building?'
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Pitches and Queries: What personal information should you put in a query letter? "If you have room in the query, it’s nice to include a little bit of personal detail. This helps them to see you as a person."
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Pitches and Queries: How to Handle World Building - "Book descriptions on sale sites are not the same as query letters, but studying them can give some insight into how stories work in world building details."
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Pitches and Queries: What personal info should you include? "If you're querying a horror novel with Bigfoot, you might mention you're a fan of classic horror movies and like to research Cryptids in your spare time."
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"Pitches and Queries: “I have been told that researching each agent and adding their relevant titles is a good strategy." It is generally recommended that you say something specific about an agent, often in the opening … but it’s tricky. " https://lttr.ai/AcKpA
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After researching dozens of literary agents' profile pages and #mswl entries, I now know why they all are ghosting me: my story does not involve a morally ambiguous young werewolf attending a magic school. My bad.
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Pitches and Queries: What personal information should you put in a query letter? 'You could say something like, “I have bachelor’s degrees in English and biology and live in Arizona.” Ideally, though ...'
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Pitches and Queries: A Big Question - If you have a referral from someone, you can start with “[Name of person they know] suggested you might be a good fit for my YA fantasy novel,” or whatever.

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Pitches and Queries: A Big Question - A critique client of mine asked me to review his query and also asked some questions.
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Got a rejection at last! I never realised that would feel so good, but it seems as if I've been screaming into the void and hearing only silence. Just to hear another voice, even if it is shouting "Fuck off!" is so life-affirming, I do exist!
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Pitches and Queries: Be Specific, Specific, Specific!
Imagine this pitch with specific details. It wouldn’t take many more words, but it would likely be much more compelling!

https://open.substack.com/pub/writebetterwritenow/p/pitches-and-queries-be-specific-specific
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#WritersCoffeeClub 31 January. How’s your writing progress so far this year? What are you working on?

The Plague Angel (TPA) is in beta and #querying. The prequel is also WIP which is creating some interesting late edits to TPA as details of the hero's early life influence aspects of his character.

#WritersCoffeeClub 6 January. What’s your current writing project? How’s it going?

My WIP "The Plague Angel" (80k words of real-world historical fiction set in the plague years of the 14th century) is with beta readers. Feedback has been positive, and the revision process is going well, but I don't have an agent yet, so publication is still a distant dream.

New blog: https://unexpectedangles.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/messages-messages/

Should writers have a message for their readers, or was Sam Goldwyn right when he said “Messages, messages. From Western Union you get messages. From me, you get pictures.”?
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