When querying one of the worst things is waiting. Waiting to hear another form rejection, not hear back or maybe a detailed rejection which if its constructive can be very helpful. But most of us hope and pray we hear a request for more material or a congratulations I would love to represent you. Even the most profound writers have faced rejection at one point in their career. So one of the most important things is putting together the perfect query letter is it that it is compelling and makes agents want to reach for more of your material. If you have never heard of slush pile hell which I will link down below and you are in the stage of querying or about to, I suggest you read it.
What Slush Pile Hell Is
A unnamed literary agent compiled a list of most annoying and crazy queries he gets. It really makes me wonder who these people are. When I read a few of the queries I thought maybe they were simply trolling. There is just no way people like this exist, but I guess there is. As writers we can envision a myriad of characters whether sensible or whacky and there are a lot of eccentric individuals in this world. …show more content…
I would like to think I follow all the rules and check my grammar before sending off my work and even if it were not the kind of thing he wanted to represent he would politely pass. There is just a bit of an issue of privacy I'm concerned about. It's one thing to voluntarily send your work in to be posted and critiqued like on query shark, but when it's done without your knowledge I think it can be somewhat unfair.
If you read you will never be on
What Slush Pile Hell Is
A unnamed literary agent compiled a list of most annoying and crazy queries he gets. It really makes me wonder who these people are. When I read a few of the queries I thought maybe they were simply trolling. There is just no way people like this exist, but I guess there is. As writers we can envision a myriad of characters whether sensible or whacky and there are a lot of eccentric individuals in this world. …show more content…
I would like to think I follow all the rules and check my grammar before sending off my work and even if it were not the kind of thing he wanted to represent he would politely pass. There is just a bit of an issue of privacy I'm concerned about. It's one thing to voluntarily send your work in to be posted and critiqued like on query shark, but when it's done without your knowledge I think it can be somewhat unfair.
If you read you will never be on