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Old 8th August 2007, 10:14 PM   #11 (permalink)
Teresa Edgerton
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Re: Effective description/comparisons in query letter

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Originally Posted by Tirellan View Post
I've seen a couple of agent blogs in the last few months (Nathan Bransford of CurtisBrown comes to mind) that say that you should not mention other works in a query letter. Once the agent is interested in your work it is a good thing to have other books to offer, but not before.
It might be the difference between mainstream publishing and genre publishing.

I've always believed that you only mentioned one project at a time, until John Jarrold recently said otherwise, and he definitely has his hand on the pulse of SF/F publishing.

On the other hand, Sue is right. If an agent tells you what he or she wants (and doesn't want) than you send them what they ask for.
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