Veteran editors reveal how to beat the query slush pile
A veteran literary agent who fields thousands of unsolicited pitches each year shares the quiet criteria that separate the queries that get read from the ones that vanish into the stack.
The Weight of a Full Inbox There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a literary agent's desk when the inbox counter crosses into triple digits. It is not the productive silence of a focused morning, nor the anticipatory quiet before a breakthrough. It is the silence of volume of knowing that somewhere in that growing stack of unread messages, a handful of manuscripts are waiting for the kind of attention that only a human reader can give. Paula Munier, a veteran literary agent and author of Writing...
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