query letter mistakes

Welcome back to my series, 7 Things ChatGPT Can’t Tell You About Publishing. As we near the end of this series, let’s talk about something deceptively simple yet profoundly important: the signals you send through the small details of your pitch. Too often, writers assume agents are evaluating only the story itself. In truth, we’re […]

Welcome back to my series, 7 Things ChatGPT Can’t Tell You About Publishing. So far, we’ve tackled four pitfalls I see time and again in query letters and proposals: Today, we turn to pitfall number five: the overwritten query letter. If you’ve ever worried about how to sharpen your query letter, whether because your pitch […]