Tag: Querying
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Write a Strong Book Hook (With Examples)
The “hook” in your book pitch is the line or two of text that captures attention, declares what’s unique about your book, and tells an agent or editor if your manuscript is something their audience is hungry for.
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Common Questions about Comp Titles
You’ve heard that you need to include comp titles in your query or book proposal, and you have questions. After a decade of polishing my comp-title skills as a publishing professional, I have answers.
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What A Literary Agent Wants Writers to Know
I asked a literary agent to sit down for an interview—an anonymous one, so they could speak with full frankness: How do you impress a literary agent? What are they really looking for in a query? In a manuscript? What factors make them decide to take an author on? What red flags scream “unprofessional”?
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Find Comp Titles Faster with These Publishing-Industry Tools
The same advice is often given over and over to querying authors who are seeking comp titles: talk to librarians and independent booksellers, and leverage recommendations from Goodreads and Amazon. As a publishing professional, I can suggest some tools to make the process faster and easier.
Erin Alladin 