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Hi everyone,
I'm new here and just about to send off my first round of queries on my first novel to a selection of agents. While I was writing the novel, I had the good fortune to meet a well established author who offered to read what I was working on. After reading what I had done, which was about 10 000 words of the now 60 000 word YA novel, he emailed me with some lovely praise and encouragement to keep writing. That's basically been the extent of our correspondence, as he was too busy to read more.
My question now is, can I use the praise from his emails, even though he didn't read the whole novel? Would it be disingenuous to say something like, author XX calls this novel, "blah blah blah," since it was really only the first few chapters? Should I include the praise but somehow put in that it was praise for only part of the work? If so, how could I state it? Or should I just leave it out altogether? I think I have a good query letter, but it sure would kick it up a notch to have the quote in there.
Thanks in advance!
I'm new here and just about to send off my first round of queries on my first novel to a selection of agents. While I was writing the novel, I had the good fortune to meet a well established author who offered to read what I was working on. After reading what I had done, which was about 10 000 words of the now 60 000 word YA novel, he emailed me with some lovely praise and encouragement to keep writing. That's basically been the extent of our correspondence, as he was too busy to read more.
My question now is, can I use the praise from his emails, even though he didn't read the whole novel? Would it be disingenuous to say something like, author XX calls this novel, "blah blah blah," since it was really only the first few chapters? Should I include the praise but somehow put in that it was praise for only part of the work? If so, how could I state it? Or should I just leave it out altogether? I think I have a good query letter, but it sure would kick it up a notch to have the quote in there.
Thanks in advance!