I read something on Anne Mini's Author!Author! blog that got me wondering about the way I query. Thought I'd run it through the AW wringer.
She said that anyone who doesn't include an SASE large enough for the agent/editor to return the entire submission isn't using the "secret handshake" and it could be an auto-no. Just because the SASE = #10 business-sized. I have a hard time swallowing that one whole (even though I like her blog overall), but I'm far from an insider (<<understatement of the year alert).
To be blunt, if that's true I'm cut out of snail-querying by budget alone. As an environmentalist I usually opt for e-mail anyway, but some great agents still only take snail-mail. I've rec'd one SASE back that wasn't a rejection, but from a young agent — not sure if that would make a dif.
Just wonderin' what y'all have to say about it.
She said that anyone who doesn't include an SASE large enough for the agent/editor to return the entire submission isn't using the "secret handshake" and it could be an auto-no. Just because the SASE = #10 business-sized. I have a hard time swallowing that one whole (even though I like her blog overall), but I'm far from an insider (<<understatement of the year alert).
To be blunt, if that's true I'm cut out of snail-querying by budget alone. As an environmentalist I usually opt for e-mail anyway, but some great agents still only take snail-mail. I've rec'd one SASE back that wasn't a rejection, but from a young agent — not sure if that would make a dif.
Just wonderin' what y'all have to say about it.