Hey,
I write in British English but am sending my query to a few US agents as it seems silly to ignore some great agents because I happen to be in a different country.
Any way, I'm not going to Americanise the language in my book (I'd get it wrong and it can be fixed at a later date if I get that far) but was wondering if I should spell out the fact I am English in the query or let them work that out from my address? What about a short sentence at the end of the query along the lines of 'I'm a UK-based badger wrangler but I'm querying US agents because the US YA market is awesome.' And they can work out from this that I didn't make a mistake when I spelt 'realise' with an 's' etc.
Guess it's not that important but any thoughts appreciated.
Kat
I write in British English but am sending my query to a few US agents as it seems silly to ignore some great agents because I happen to be in a different country.
Any way, I'm not going to Americanise the language in my book (I'd get it wrong and it can be fixed at a later date if I get that far) but was wondering if I should spell out the fact I am English in the query or let them work that out from my address? What about a short sentence at the end of the query along the lines of 'I'm a UK-based badger wrangler but I'm querying US agents because the US YA market is awesome.' And they can work out from this that I didn't make a mistake when I spelt 'realise' with an 's' etc.
Guess it's not that important but any thoughts appreciated.
Kat
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