Comments on: Hmm…what do you think? http://writerunboxed.com/2006/07/19/hmmwhat-do-you-think/ About the craft and business of genre fiction Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:31:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Kathleen Bolton http://writerunboxed.com/2006/07/19/hmmwhat-do-you-think/#comment-802 Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:39:00 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2006/07/19/hmmwhat-do-you-think/#comment-802 Methinks this agent has his/her head up his/her ass. Let's play a game. There are two query letters in front of the agent. The last line states writing credentials. Letter A: "Though I'm a stay-at-home parent with no professional experience, I love the written word and have produced three unpublished novels." Of course, we're bias because we write articles for magazines and trade publications, but it's no leap of logic to think that someone who can be published in non-fiction has a pretty good understanding of what it takes in fiction. I think the agent is patronizing and rude. Letter B: "As a non-fiction writer with over 150 published articles in a cross-section of magazines and journals, my love of the written word has driven me to produce three unpublished novels." Who get's taken more seriously. C'mon. Methinks this agent has his/her head up his/her ass. Let’s play a game. There are two query letters in front of the agent. The last line states writing credentials.

Letter A: “Though I’m a stay-at-home parent with no professional experience, I love the written word and have produced three unpublished novels.”

Of course, we’re bias because we write articles for magazines and trade publications, but it’s no leap of logic to think that someone who can be published in non-fiction has a pretty good understanding of what it takes in fiction. I think the agent is patronizing and rude.

Letter B: “As a non-fiction writer with over 150 published articles in a cross-section of magazines and journals, my love of the written word has driven me to produce three unpublished novels.”

Who get’s taken more seriously. C’mon.

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