Hari-Query--Brutal Query Smackdown
wherein Danny talks query letters and stuff. a good place to start is agentquery.com. check 'em out!
[spliced because you may not care]
She doesn't in any way sugar
coat things. But I did ask her to be nice, being that it was my first book and
all, and well.... I just can't. my mum is the same, she's always been there to
get me threw whatever I wanted, and she always tells me that it's the style I
write in that she likes, not so much the books. She likes my pure honestly and
younger style writing. though she did read my first book and said she wouldn't
read any sex scene I ever write, but she's real busy at the moment and doesn't
have time, so I turn to my Nan.
Still I don't believe them,
and yet I let their good words roll over me in a way that makes me feel better
and gets me wanting to write more.
The second thing was the synopsis....
Make it quick, simple, and
fun. make the people want to read your work, or more so--at least what I was
getting, give them the story in simple flowing points that lets them know
what's happening as well as give things away, and still if they want to read it
to find out what's what then they will.
How I see it it's more like a review
of your own book isn't it? You tell them in quick simple easy to understand
words about the book. it's not in any way a place to tell them they should read
it, but more in a way that lets them know what's doing before the decide to
pick the thing up (really synopsis’s not always like that and I can't see a
editor, or publisher picking, or even publishing your book if they read it and
it be nothing like they thought, I would toss it aside on principle, can't
think they wouldn't themselves)
He also said something about divorcing
your work. Easy. I think its crap anyway.
Don’t love, or brag about
yourself or your book. I take the above on that one too.
Um... Oh and spell
check/grammar edit everything (with me that's a giving, even with the computer
I still fuck up. but then it's not like I would ever be able to write one of
these things myself. hell, first it would mean that I would have to figure out
what the hell my book is about in the first place, and I can never tell, even
after writing and reading it. like it's about what I want it to be
about. but I'm not that parsing of myself.
He also went on, or maybe this
was at the start. About the fact that it's not finished unless you get someone
you don't know to read the thing. Or until your first several chapters are so
impressive you can't believe you wrote it.
Anyway, I think that's it. you
really should check it out, and maybe go onto the Nightstand they are about to
get into all that crap about query, which is probably why he's done a volg on
it--that or it's because of YARebels.
Who knows?
Well thanks for the time.
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