I wonder

Hi, Alphabet

First, yum and second, it would work for me and others here, I bet, but for editors probably not. Much good luck.


Warm regards, Susie

Alphabet said:

I wonder whether icing your query letter onto a giant cookie would work?
Including a SASE of course!

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So long as the recipient isn't a diabetic - eeek!

Alphabet said:

I wonder whether icing your query letter onto a giant cookie would work?

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The first time I went in for a meeting at William Morris, I brought the agent's assistant a bag of chocolate chip cookies. I don't remember this, but she does. The agent took me on as a hip-pocket client, and the assistant went way above and beyond the call of duty in trying to find me work as a television writer. Unfortunately, I never was hired on NY-based show, and I refused to move to LA, so eventually we parted company (yes, I kick myself often now). But she still remembers the chocolate-chip cookies; she's now one of their cornerstone agents and she's still willing to read anything I write.

It's not the agents we need to schmooze; it's the assistants!

It's not the agents we need to schmooze; it's the assistants!

You're absolutely right about that. My current agent was an assistant for many years and because it was always up to him to get so-and-so on the phone, he ended up speaking not only to so-and-so but so-and-so's assistant and whoever else answered. He built up this huge list of conacts which paid dividends when he became an agent himself. I guess by that logic I should abandon him for his current assistant. Well. Maybe not.

Hey, if I were an agent, I'd definitely open the queries with cookies in them first. Because, you know, those are perishable submissions. Sorta like smudging the postmark date--you look at those first.