Demystifying Genres
This month the Institute of Children’s Literature Writers’ Support Room features Lisha Cauthen – Wednesday critique regular, KSCBWI Scoop editor and bloggess extraordinaire. Check out Lisha in action here! Great job, Lisha!
Query that caught my agent’s eye
I’ve blogged about how I targeted agents by keeping a detailed reading list and focusing on agents who repped novels that I could relate to my own work (targeting agents). Here is my actual query letter with my commentary in bold:
PB Mistakes Plague the Slush Pile
Tracy Marchini (http://www.tracymarchini.com/) has worked as a literary agent’s assistant at Curtis Brown, Ltd. (http://curtisbrown.com) for over two years, and has spent a significant amount of time answering Laura Manivong’s newbie questions (thanks, Tracy!). Before joining Curtis Brown, she worked as a freelance children’s book reviewer for BookPage and as a correspondent for the Taconic Press. She’s also well-known for being the only second grader in her class to write a book report on a book she penned herself. So…