Follow her guidelines and read the whole dang blog before submitting a query to a single person - including Janet Reid. If you can take the daily does of reality you can follow her on twitter.

In fair warning, her advice can sound harsh. She’s a no nonsense person so expect the cold honest truth when you read her comments. Remember she is an agent because she loves books and she is also doing many writers a favour by helping them hone their query letters. As you should with all people, treat her with respect.

Writer’s Beware as described on their website is a collection of “Warnings About the Schemes Scams and Pitfalls that Threaten Writers” The organizers behind that section are firmly against self publishing but researching their site may help you make up your mind whether you want to make the leap into self publishing; or you want to go with the agent -> publisher route.

Writer’s Beware as described on their website is a collection of “Warnings About the Schemes Scams and Pitfalls that Threaten Writers” The organizers behind that section are firmly against self publishing but researching their site may help you make up your mind whether you want to make the leap into self publishing; or you want to go with the agent -> publisher route.

"Moshe Feder is a Consulting Editor for Tor Books acquiring primarily, but not exclusively, science fiction and fantasy.

He was the editor of the acclaimed Vietnam War satire Nam-a-Rama by Phillip Jennings and such New York Times bestsellers as The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, among others.

SF that interests him will have truly new and imaginative uses of real science. For fantasy -- whether epic or urban -- concepts and/or imaginary worlds, and characters, of complexity and depth will impress. In both genres, work that avoids the typical are favored."

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