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Dear Lauren,
OH NO, oh no, oh no! I spelled your name wrong. PLEASE don’t hold that against the rest of the message.
Mea culpa, mea culpa.
With utmost sincerety,
Joann Brosnan
Dear Lauren,
Your information regarding how to best format/submit a query (plain text etc..) was fantastic. Now I am left wondering if that is the best way to also paste a tasty 10 pages of the novel. The novel (which I work on in a Scrivener program) looks a little like road kill when it’s pasted to an email. Is there a way to avoid this?
Thank you for being so supportive of authors. It makes me so hopeful to work with an agent some day!
So many thanks,
Ellen
Hi Lauren, As I’m getting ready to query (she shakes violently in her seat), I have a format question 101. When I paste my query and or pages of manuscript to the email it looses it’s shape. Is there away around this? I use an Apple? I hate to get rejected for form, getting rejected for content seems way more noble. Thanks! And thanks so much for putting what you are looking for on the BookEnds site! Happy New Year, hope it’s query nice!
Ellen
Hi Lauren,
I just wanted to thank you for your fabulous blog. It is informative, creative and really visually lovely! As a writer who one day hopes to work with an agent, it is fantastic to have access to how agents think and what they think about! Love the queries and links! Thanks a lot!
Oops, I was trying to email you for an interview, not comment. The form submitted as I tried to create a hard return. – Cherlyn
Just posted a comment to you now. So sorry, I made a mistake, the word ‘telling’, should be ‘selling’. Thanks
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