I pre-queried (now there's a bizarre one, I suppose) before settling in to write, and all three agents wrote back to say that the lead's sexual orientation wasn't nearly as important as whether it's a readable, quality story. Granted, this is hardly the word of a published author, but it is what agents came back at me with. Grain of salt, as always.
Everytime I do word-count thingies, I despair. I need to stop writing doorstops. Sigh. I've always wondered: if an editor likes a story, is the high word count an automatic killer, or might an editor suggest ways to slice the word count and thus make the book more marketable? (Yes, I know fantasy can carry a larger word count, but even so, 156K is large, I'm told.)
I've always wondered & never knew who to ask--but then along came Anna! ...Woot.
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Date: 2006-03-22 03:42 am (UTC)I pre-queried (now there's a bizarre one, I suppose) before settling in to write, and all three agents wrote back to say that the lead's sexual orientation wasn't nearly as important as whether it's a readable, quality story. Granted, this is hardly the word of a published author, but it is what agents came back at me with. Grain of salt, as always.
Everytime I do word-count thingies, I despair. I need to stop writing doorstops. Sigh. I've always wondered: if an editor likes a story, is the high word count an automatic killer, or might an editor suggest ways to slice the word count and thus make the book more marketable? (Yes, I know fantasy can carry a larger word count, but even so, 156K is large, I'm told.)
I've always wondered & never knew who to ask--but then along came Anna! ...Woot.