My name is Avery and I am A VERY avid reader. You see what I did there...? Welcome to my channel! I post book reviews, hauls, tags, challenges, and more! I hope you guys enjoy getting to know me and I will continue to enjoy getting to know every one of you!
Sharing your experience as a person who actually read and screened thousands of queries was helpful. But here's a tip for you from a video producer: don't shoot your videos with your bed in the background. Not very professional.
With respect…Avery isn’t interviewing for a job, on the news, or submitting this to her workplace. She made a (very) insightful video on RU-vid, giving tips to viewers. I personally don’t see how a bed - functional piece of furniture - isn’t perfectly appropriate for this setting. Next time maybe evaluate the situation before providing constructive criticism : )
seeing all of these young girls recognise douchbags for what they are just makes me so happy and proud for how far we've come as women. It made my heart sing when one girl even said that she did not want Kya to be with Tate either, ditto girl, ditto. I have hope for our future.
It still my dream to someday visit new york, exploring bookstore and place Holden Caulfield visited, and reading a book in central park. But here I am, living in third world country, rural areas, strugling to find a job amidst this broken job market lol
8:39 - the MANUSCRIPT can’t be in courier? I use Highland as a word processor and courier is the default. I hope I can change it? Interesting how screenplays have the same rule BUT in reverse. “Use courier only, nothing else. No weird fonts like calibri!”
Maybe it's outdated but I've seen Times New Roman and Courier listed as *the* standard manuscript fonts... which is probably why she receives so many manuscripts in Courier font. She says use "normal" fonts and Courier is literally the definition of Normal. Sounds like this might just be her personal preference. I mean, Calibri for your email, fine, but for your manuscript??
Seriously the best review of the maiden’s. I was so invested in Mariana’s love story & grief. It’s annoying to see how they completely ruined all our invested time & emotions.
This is an excellent video, people need to understand how the industry operates, whether they like it or not. At the end of the day, all authors need to put on their sales hats when submitting a letter. Instead of being turned off by the preferences of literary agents, think of it as insider information that set your submission apart from the rest. I've been passively working on a project for years to the point where it's time to start sending off letters. For something I spent years working on, I definitely want to do everything right and have all the advantages I can so I'm not wasting time/opportunities. Also a few questions: Do you recall ever receiving multiple submissions from the same person or a re-submit and how is that viewed in the industry? Can you share some examples of queries and manuscripts that you would give to an agent? Thanks again!
Updated because, I'm coming across as rude. Really, my intention is to express my frustration as the manual, twitchy, process that hurts the industry. I.e. I can't fix it, this content is good and helpful, but... And I vent. My original comment: Agents. Go into your email settings and switch to non-HTML. That will solve your font issues. This is more of an agent problem than a submitter problem. Goodness. Learn your tools. And don't accept manuscripts pasted into the email. What the heck! That's asking for issues. This agency seems very back alley.
That’s actually how many of the agencies operate. Why do you continue to come back to the same video to leave more rude comments 7 months later. It’s not my fault that’s how the industry operates and has for a while. I’m just saying how my experience was at the agency.
@@AveryAvidReader Just expressing frustration at agencies giving their issues on authors. Apologies. I'm venting more than anything. And I came back seven months later because a friend asked for a decent video on querying and so I rewatched this one. Look. You are putting out good information, but it also highlights the warts in the industry.
I'm an editor for a literary journal. We post guidelines, but we also understand that we are merely one of potentially many places they are submitting. I give folks lots of grace. And expecting folks to personalize a query just for your agency? Oi. I know agencies expect it, but man that is a lot of hubris right there. The relationship hasn't been established at all. All those courtesies can happen after interest is shown.
My advice is not to send your queries in crazy colors and fonts. I stand by that. It’s not professional to send a manuscript in purple courier typing. That looks ridiculous.
That’s actually just one small tip I gave out of the whole video. And yes, submitting your manuscript in an insane font like many people do is unprofessional. And more people do it than you’d think. That’s why it was mentioned. You could also continue to watch the video to see the rest of the tips about the content of the manuscript and query.
No offense, but it’s kind of depressing to know that there’s someone like you (who probably got the internship gig because someone in your family knew somebody),, a college sophomore?? I’m just guessing, who seems mostly obsessed with what kind of font someone uses, is allowed to serve as the gatekeeper for not only myself, but possibly the next Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Guessing from your often poor grammar and vacuous Valley Girl delivery that you probably also believe that Susan Collins and Stephanie Meyer’s tomes are the height of literary achievement. Please do us all a favor and go into fashion merchandising, or anything besides the literary or publishing industry.
