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How many things are wrong with this query letter? Let us count the ways.

by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog, Publishing

This query arrived in my inbox this morning. It is possibly a joke, but experience tells me it is not. I have pasted it verbatim. How many things about it can you count that would irritate a prospective literary agent? (Not including the fact that the author attached...
What do I look for in an unsolicited manuscript?

What do I look for in an unsolicited manuscript?

by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 13, 2012 | Blog, Publishing

The Out of Print Writing blog has just published a short series of interviews with an Australian publisher (Rebecca Starford, Affirm Press), an Australian literary agent (me) and a writer (Neil Randall) on what happens when a writer gets “a nibble” of...
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