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(And yes, I stuffed up the title with a typo)
Probably worth it or Rejection-ees, but here’s some formatting tips I picked up on my various querying rounds that may be impactful (or not). Most are oldies but goodies, and bear repeating.
US LETTER - For us Euro or Antipodean A4 Page writers, this format is shorter and wider, and fits less pages in. Probably not an issue due to digital being the norm, but one never knows what people are reading in. If you are querying US agents, change the format. Vice versa for UK.
GMAIL HORROR - if you have a Gmail address, every web browser and app other than Chrome in Windows is probably going to stuff up the formatting. (In my case, it takes away the double space of the included query pages.... at page 5.) if you want the best chance, send your Gmails by Chrome only.
KINDLE TITLES - if you have any partial or fulls sent to an agent, a lot of them are reading on their Kindles now. And if you ever had a stupid title before settling on a good one, MS word saves the first stupid title as Original Metadata that ends up in an Kindle’s Title list rather than the actual Awesome Title. Change this in the “Properties” of your MS otherwise the agent you are querying will know your book only as “DRAFT 1 Of Untitled BS”
if anyone has anything interesting to add, please let me know....
Probably worth it or Rejection-ees, but here’s some formatting tips I picked up on my various querying rounds that may be impactful (or not). Most are oldies but goodies, and bear repeating.
US LETTER - For us Euro or Antipodean A4 Page writers, this format is shorter and wider, and fits less pages in. Probably not an issue due to digital being the norm, but one never knows what people are reading in. If you are querying US agents, change the format. Vice versa for UK.
GMAIL HORROR - if you have a Gmail address, every web browser and app other than Chrome in Windows is probably going to stuff up the formatting. (In my case, it takes away the double space of the included query pages.... at page 5.) if you want the best chance, send your Gmails by Chrome only.
KINDLE TITLES - if you have any partial or fulls sent to an agent, a lot of them are reading on their Kindles now. And if you ever had a stupid title before settling on a good one, MS word saves the first stupid title as Original Metadata that ends up in an Kindle’s Title list rather than the actual Awesome Title. Change this in the “Properties” of your MS otherwise the agent you are querying will know your book only as “DRAFT 1 Of Untitled BS”
if anyone has anything interesting to add, please let me know....
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