Q3: Adult fantasy. Love the cheeky tone + the premise has me saying wtf in the best possible way. One quirky line isn't quite landing. And sometimes it's hard to tell, but it's important not to use self-pub titles in your query. To show you know trad pub, stick to trad pub comps #RevPit #10Queries
P3: This is what I'm talking about! Everyday conflict in the first scene! 💥Not The Conflict but problems the MC deals with all the time and includes world elements in the setting AND characters. Really established MC's baseline for how they deal with conflict. Nailed it #RevPit #10Queries
Q4: Comp titles are different genres, neither of which are the same as your ms. But tbh you might not be marketing this right? Side note: if you only mention a character once in the QL, you may not need to name them. Limit details to what we need to understand the query #RevPit #10Queries
Q on the character mention: I had an agent say that a POV character should be in the query letter so she wasn't startled when the character showed up later. (Multiple POV MS). Would that be an exception to this general rule, in your opinion?
Re "marketing" + genre: It's important to remember that's what age category and genre are about, and in the query letter, you want to establish that you understand your intended market. Plus if you're using the wrong genre/age, you may be querying the wrong agents #RevPit #10Queries
Super strong opening! Balance of internal + external to keep up the tension + set the tone in what could have been a very stagnant opening
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Since I started with reading pages due to internet issues the day we got submissions, I did not mean to pick so many with comp issues. It just happened.
But since I did, let's talk for a sec about comp titles.
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Question (if you can answer!)- I know prologues are controversial/debated, but what's your take on how intense they can be? Especially if they're short and the actual starting scene with the MC follows these guidelines?
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Voice ✔️
Conflict ✔️
Microtension ✔️
Subtext ✔️✔️✔️
Super strong opening! Balance of internal + external to keep up the tension + set the tone in what could have been a very stagnant opening
#RevPit #10Queries
But since I did, let's talk for a sec about comp titles.
#RevPit #10Queries