Personalization is nice when it makes sense, but like you mentioned if it’s only, “I have fantasy and you take fa…” it isn’t really necessary.

Serious question—is the pilot and the food delivery lady to the WH the same person? 🧐 with that budget you think they could afford to pay people better

Stories of female rage
#MSWL

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I'm just a girl standing in front of publishing, asking it to DO BETTER!

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The scammers be scamming. Authors please be aware this is NOT how publishing operates. Also, you should NEVER send money either! Be safe out there, please!

Trans rights are human rights!
I see you!
I support you!
Trans visibility day 🩷

I always find it wild who is out there selling querying advice.

I heard a rumor (so take that for what it is) that some authors will withdraw and resubmit their query letters, hoping to get on the top of the query box. Now I can't speak for other agents but I work from the bottom up, so if this is the strategy it might not be as affective as you'd've hoped.

a woman is sitting at a table in a living room talking to a man . Alt: GIF of a woman (sorry I can’t remember her name right now) saying, “I mean, it’s a banana, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?

Meanwhile rich people be like….

That’s annoying!

Please do 🩷

Must be a bug or something. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I’m sorry it’s not working for you. That’s annoying

George Orwell never said that, but what he did say was, “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”

OMG same. 🤯

My Murder looks interesting…. 👀🩷
Thanks again for taking the time to read Hexcellent 🩷

Thanks so much for reading Sarah! 🩷🥹🩷

Mistakes happen. We are all human ❤️

Publishers really do readers and authors a disservice when they market books to the wrong age group or market them as the wrong genre.

This sounds so good! 🩷

TRANS HERO SAVES DROWNING BABY

This story should be everywhere.

Feel free to send it my way. Happy to take a peek.

Does this happen in all cases of a book breaking out? No. But I would wager that a majority of the books that do "break out" are ones with substantial marketing budgets and a strong team behind it pushing the book.

In publishing, agents get told all the time from publishers that they "don't know how to break this book out" and they aren't going to like it, but I know the answer to this perplexing issue...
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It's money.

There are a lot of #MSWL posts going around and I love that!
I just want authors to remember NOT to self reject.
Your book doesn’t have to be a perfect match to a MSWL
If the agent takes fantasy and you have fantasy take your shot! ❤️
Don’t stress it!

That’s hard to define in a single post so I would say if you are questioning just query. It doesn’t hurt ❤️

I believe they are, yes

I’m open to nonfiction that deals with women’s issues so this could be up my alley