You may be the kind of person who isn't bothered by rejection or the idea of sending
hundreds of query letters and waiting, sometimes months, for a response.
People working in the publishing industry
get hundreds of queries a day, and they need to find a firm, polite way to dismiss amateur book projects without being mean.
In this scenario, if your website and web pages are not optimized properly for such searches, you may
lose hundreds of queries everyday.
Writers don't have to go through the hardship of
writing hundreds of query letters and hoping to be chosen by agents and publishers.
After all, they can receive
hundreds of queries per week, and submittals that don't follow the rules are easily deleted without regrets.
Although I may be particularly outspoken about voicemail, you know there are others out there who agree — like some of the journalists we pitch, for example (or literary agents receiving
hundreds of queries from writers).
They get
literally hundreds of queries a month, most of which are for manuscripts that are nowhere near publishable — like my aforementioned fatally flawed opus — but they have not discovered an effective way to manage the volume of queries.
Including the title of your book makes it easier for literary agents to find your email later, if needed (don't forget that most book agents
get hundreds of queries every week).
As a literary agent in major trade publishing at the Trident Media Group literary agency, I
receive hundreds of query letters a week.
She said the clincher for her (apart from liking my work) is that of
the hundreds of queries she gets every day, NONE of those writers ALREADY HAVE A PLATFORM (and most aren't really interested in building one).
Most experienced bloggers will receive
hundreds of queries and pestering isn't appreciated!
But, on occasion, I also heard a familiar refrain, one I hear often in
the hundreds of query letters I receive a week: «My website is in the works...» «I plan to launch social media accounts...» «I will create a site to promote...»
Prior to that point, the best I could say was that I had gotten some very positive feedback from agents among
my hundreds of query rejections.
Before spending hours and hours writing and sending out
hundreds of queries, take a few minutes to ask yourself the following five questions:
I sent out
hundreds of query letters.
Anna: In most submission guidelines, you find the sentence: We get
hundreds of queries each week.