Bianca Marais

All of you that are rolling your eyes at me while you're driving your car, eyes on the road because we need you to write the best query letter that you can.

And we will still be here to help you guys with your query letters because that is our job.

Okay, back to this query letter at hand.

In the second line, you say, based on your interest in acquiring fiction, just a reminder that agents don't acquire.

Like we sign clients and acquiring is a very specific word.

Acquiring is what editors do when they buy the book for the publisher.

So just FYI, acquiring is a really tricky word here.

So don't use it.

We're disagreeing on this.

Okay.

Another reason why this podcast will never die is because we have so many opinions and we do not speak for everybody.

I will just flag that as a yellow flag.

Let's go with the yellow flag there for the term acquiring fiction.

All right.

There are way too many comps.

Four comps is a lot of comps.

That's a lot of comps.

So I think we need to kind of narrow that down a little bit.

And I think the substance like Cece talked about is an obvious omission here.

It's so important in your understanding of your place within the larger marketplace, where you want to go, what your goals are, how you see things.