Monday 29 December 2008

How not to #10

Continuing with our 'How not to' guest blogs, bestselling author and former literary agent Orna Ross explains what NOT to say to an Agent or Editor:

“Dear Agent or Dear Editor…”

If you’re asking somebody to represent or publish your work, you’ve done your research. So therefore you know who they are, and why they would have an interest in books in your genre/category. So therefore you know their name and you wouldn’t send them something that feels like a form letter, right?

Right.