Carly Watters

Carly, can I just jump in without making you lose your train of thought?

Something that I'm finding fascinating now that we've started the meet your dream agent segment in our Tuesday sub stack where we interview different agents so that our listeners can get to know them better is how many of them say that when they tap out of a query letter is because of bad comps.

comps that don't fit with the genre etc and i was honestly thinking it would be something else like the plot paragraph and so many of them are saying these comps don't make any sense i'm tapping out so it shows you how important the comps are all right i feel like that's the thing that we have i mean there's a lot of things we've like tried to like hammer home with our audience over the years i hope our long-term listeners know how strongly we feel about comps for all of those reasons

Say something else, Carly, so I can interrupt you.

Okay.

Oh, she just flashed us the big guns.

If you're not watching on YouTube, this is the moment you need to go and watch what she did.

Okay.

Cece, I'm handing it across to you now.

Tell us what's in the pages.

Thank you, Cece.

Sometimes it's just a few pages later.

So for authors, a lot of the time, you know, I know I start somewhere that I think is the beginning and it's not.

It's generally further along or way before.

But yeah, read the rest of your pages and see if there is a scene that'll tick all those boxes for Cece.

It doesn't necessarily mean a rewrite.

Okay, Carly, moving on to you.

Thank you, Carly.

I just want to give a shout out to one of my favorite influencer books, and it's a Canadian author, Leanne Zhang, who wrote Julie Chan is Dead.

So for this author to maybe check it out or anybody who's writing about influencers, that was a really great book.