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to make him my very own. Please, esteemed writers of AW, I need your opinions.
In the 1990’s I wrote romance novels for Silhouette/Harlequin. But due to life circumstances, I had a long hiatus from writing and didn’t pick up the pen (computer) again until two years ago and have now finished a women’s fiction/suspense novel.
My query letter is good (critiqued by my writing mentor and about 20 writer friends) so I’m pretty confident there. It elicited a request for a 50-page partial from Al Zuckerman at Writer’s House. The R arrived in a dizzying six days *sigh* but at least that gave me confidence in the letter.
Since then, I’m getting dozens of form R’s. At the end of my query letter I list my publishing credits, but since they are in the Romance genre, I’m beginning to fear that my history may be prejudicing agents who do not represent Romance against me.
While I’m proud of those books, I’m not now writing them, and I do say so in the letter. But still. Do you think I should leave out those credits?
We really can get stuck in ruts and people do pigeonhole others (me, too) and while at first I thought it a good idea to show my published past, now I’m not so sure. Any advice you can give will be much appreciated.
In the 1990’s I wrote romance novels for Silhouette/Harlequin. But due to life circumstances, I had a long hiatus from writing and didn’t pick up the pen (computer) again until two years ago and have now finished a women’s fiction/suspense novel.
My query letter is good (critiqued by my writing mentor and about 20 writer friends) so I’m pretty confident there. It elicited a request for a 50-page partial from Al Zuckerman at Writer’s House. The R arrived in a dizzying six days *sigh* but at least that gave me confidence in the letter.
Since then, I’m getting dozens of form R’s. At the end of my query letter I list my publishing credits, but since they are in the Romance genre, I’m beginning to fear that my history may be prejudicing agents who do not represent Romance against me.
While I’m proud of those books, I’m not now writing them, and I do say so in the letter. But still. Do you think I should leave out those credits?
We really can get stuck in ruts and people do pigeonhole others (me, too) and while at first I thought it a good idea to show my published past, now I’m not so sure. Any advice you can give will be much appreciated.
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