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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 month

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Kurt Kirchmeier 🌻 🇨🇦

@saskwriter

1 month

My YA debut THE SHADOW ROAD comes out in exactly two months, and trade reviews have begun to roll in, including this one from Publishers Weekly!

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

5 months

I can't be the only one who loves this, can I? Let's take a poll. Comments welcome too!

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

Can we talk about college degrees? College is a wonderful place to learn to learn, grow your brain, & figure yourself out. Sometimes we end up doing what we studied, other times not. Give your degree & where you ended up. I'll go first: Degree: Journalism Job: Literary Agent

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

Please clap for me! I finally organized my Tupperware and recycled about half of what I had. Most of it was mismatched tubs and lids!

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

If you send me a query with a typo in it, I don't mind. I am the typo queen myself. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

6 months

Authors if you get an offer from a publisher doing an open submission like Berkley, Harlequin & others, pls remember to reach out to agents for representation at that point. I've signed authors with these deals who now we have multiple deals. I've increased offers 75% of original

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

Just a bit of news to share! 😊🥳

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

I am BEGGING retailers to stop cropping every cute shirt. Even if I hadn't given birth to twins, I am 40-ahem-something woman who wants to keep all that under wraps, k!? Please help a girl out.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

8 months

I always used to see the "big agents" tweeting about closing several deals all in the same day, & I was like, "Wow, so cool. Will I ever get there?" And today I get to say, "I'm working on closing 3 deals today." So my new agent friends, it's gonna happen.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 months

What if you see a weary ostrich?

jay ✰

@jayythewave

2 months

if you can see a tree, you’re left-brained, and if you can see two people holding hands, you’re right-brained

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

3 years

As I open to queries today, I join my fellow agents and editors in the sheer fear of future volume, but also a lot of excitement at finding those projects destined to become books. Let's go do it!

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 years

Let us never forget that many authors enter the world of publishing and querying doe-eyed, not always considering it a business, but only an art, and do not understand protocols. So if you're new here, let's start with the basics: How to Query, The importance of Word Count 1 of 2

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

A thing I think we lose sight of in YA lit is that the sometimes frowned upon "insta-love" in books can just be code word for very normal teenaged "crushes." Normalize the fact teenagers fall in & out of "like" (not love) VERY frequently. Most kids aren't finding soulmates at 17!

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

I answered 250+queries today. Lots of reasons I pass: already rep similar, hook not strong enough, concept already flooding market, writing not there yet (most often reason-so keep writing), opening not strong, objectionable content(!!), don't rep it, not my cup o'tea but awesome

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

Hello to all editorial assistants out there still incognito. If your name isn't yet in Publisher's Marketplace, I'd love to connect and lets get it in there. I'm sure some of my agent buddies would love to help! Right, agent buddies? :)

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

I NEED COFFEE. Two of my authors are waiting on revisions. Another is waiting for me to read a full. I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it. I'm swamped.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

Lots of writers get caught up in what I call, "giving stage directions." The protag does this, looks here, makes a face, interspersed w/dialog, joined by character B who sounds like x, add dialog, back to protag. Needed yes, but don't forget the emotion in narration #writetip .

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

3 years

My opinion on older teens trick or treating this (& every year). Many of them didn't get to go out last year when they were "younger." They've also lost out on so much fun in general b/c of🦠. They're not out partying, doing drugs, drinking, etc. So give them your candy & smile🎃

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

3 years

@NeezLouize @DeepFriedToes_

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 years

Hey are we all just exhausted?

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

6 months

I don't envy querying writers right now. I know it's hard in general, but it really does feel like it's harder now than ever before. Because of the sheer volume we receive lately, seems like more people are writing, or writing faster & acquisitions *feel* like they're slowing too

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

3 months

ATTENTION QUERYING AUTHORS WITH OFFERS! Reminder to send a notice to EVERY AGENT you've sent your query to. Not just the ones who've requested a full or partial. Send notices to all agents too who have not responded yet. EVERYONE OF THESE AGENTS MAY COMPETE FOR YOU.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

5 months

Hey y’all don’t discount newer agents who work for reputable agencies. Query them! They have support systems in place - from contract negotiations forward. Ran across the blog post a while back with people saying they wouldn’t query me because I was new.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

5 years

If people didn’t take the risk to write for the first time or write NEW stories and query those stories or pitch them to editors at conferences or do contests, then we would only have OLD books. Be the one to dare to dream. Be the NEW. Dreams sometimes come true.

Alexander Pennington

@Authoralexp

5 years

Why you SHOULDN'T be afraid to query your story: -The market ISN'T oversaturated -There is NO SUCH THING as a bad idea. Sharknado has 6 sequels! -Someone needs to write the next Harry Potter -Someone will LOVE your story -Your story deserves to be read -Because it's your dream

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

Just wanna say a good reason for writers to stay on Twitter, carve out communities through follows and lists, is not only "the community" itself, though we can bring the drama, but awareness of things like when on today with that web site that scraped a ton of published books.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

I've been seeing a couple of my northern-based agent & editor friends using the word "y'all" in tweets lately, & I secretly hope that I've had some influence on their lexicon by my constant use of y'all's in tweets. Gonna sneak in some "yes ma'am's" to test the theory. 😝

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

I just love running across deal announcements for authors I've offered rep to, but who chose a different agent. I always keep an eye on ya'll and celebrate your success!

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

To #amquerying crowd. Up too late rereading/finishing an edit on a clients book I started before vacay. I'm so taken with what an excellent writer she is, wondering how it's possible I'm her 1st agent? Let it be a lesson. The talent is out there. Some of you just need to be found

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

Because you all have to see what my day is like.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 years

THIS GIRL!!!!

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that when you step away and leave your laptop open with your client's manuscript on screen, that your cat will come along to "help" you edit. "Help" being a very loose term.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

25 days

Straight from the source

QueryTracker

@QueryTracker

26 days

@sanchez_m_m I ran the numbers through QueryTracker and 20% of authors who landed agents queried 100 or more agents before getting their offer. So don't give up too early.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

Periodic reminder to the #amwriting #amediting #amrevising people that emailing yourself a copy of your document after a writing/editing session can save you tons of heartache if a hard drive crashes or a laptop is stolen. Get into the habit! It’s a good one.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

5 years

While you’re querying one project, write something different. Write something new. Keep learning and practicing your craft. Don’t ever become satisfied. Stay hungry. You want to be a writer? That’s what writers do. Even published ones. #WritersLife #querytip

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

5 years

SHE SAID YES! SHE SAID YES! SHE SAID YES! Breath, Ali, Breathe! Please help me welcome the uber-talented @RebeccaFKenney1 to #TeamSpencerhill . Ima bring you her vicious hungry🧜‍♀️mermaid swarm & their threat to an island nation soon! ATTACK ON TITAN X meets TO KILL A KINGDOM!

Ali Herring

@HerringAli

5 years

It feels good to be the one to start an avalanche of offers for an author. It’s also completely terrifying when you’re so in❤️with that author & project and have to wait the “2 weeks” hoping I’ll be the one. I wanted to pitch it yesterday!!!Welcome to my agenting life. 😍+🤩=😰

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 years

That moment when you read a query and you immediately go check to see if they already have an agent, because the query is just that good... now to read the sample...

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 years

Don't look at me! Look at the cats! Aren't they cute? (My son took this pic. They were looking up at him. So cute.)

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

3 months

Y’all how am I supposed to reopen to queries if every one I read goes straight into my maybe pile?

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

5 years

I will say this: This writing journey can get discouraging, pouring your heart out on paper, having it broken by rejections in the query trenches, it can be so hard. I get it. But when you find your person, when they can’t stop smiling reading your work, then it all becomes magic

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 months

Sending good vibes and peace to all authors on sub (mine included). Agents are swamped. Editors are swamped. It’s summer. Your work is simply waiting in someone’s inbox to be discovered like the buried treasure it is!

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

6 months

Okay #amquerying crowd. I've put together a list of former/current agents & editors who offer services on queries, your synopsis, manuscripts, etc. If you're looking for feedback, here's how to get it:

Writer Resources-The Feedback You Want

Want help from knowledgeable industry professionals? I’ve got you covered! See my list of resources below, many current or former agents and editors. I put together this list because I unders…

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

5 months

I'm so excited to welcome @CasieBazay to #TeamSpencerhill ! Casie has such a gift & it's not an understatement to say this beautiful, fantastical, moving romantic story has had a permanent place in my head & heart for many years. Can't wait for you to read this gorgeous romantasy.

Casie Bazay 🌳

@CasieBazay

5 months

BIG NEWS! This past year, I was querying my 6th book, but had a lovely surprise last month. @HerringAli reached out, asking to see my very 1st book, a YA time travel romance. She'd read it as an intern in 2016 & loved it. Guess what? She still loves it & I JUST SIGNED WITH HER!

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

5 years

It feels good to be the one to start an avalanche of offers for an author. It’s also completely terrifying when you’re so in❤️with that author & project and have to wait the “2 weeks” hoping I’ll be the one. I wanted to pitch it yesterday!!!Welcome to my agenting life. 😍+🤩=😰

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

Reading queries right now & one of the main reasons I’m quickly passing on some is word count wildly over or wildly under publisher expectations for genre/age group. You’ve either heard this a million times or this is your 1st, but this could be a reason you’re getting rejections

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 years

This little goofball got his wings today. Despite his health issues in the last weeks, saying goodbye to a little person who has been with us most of his 15 yrs was really hard. Bye Neville the Devil. May there be a fire hydrant with your name on it in heaven. I know u'll use it.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 months

I’m a person of ✝️ faith. My kids are also IVF babies. I also use birth control & I’d really really like other Christian’s to stay out of my business. Stop trying to control literally everything about women’s bodies & reproduction. Who gave you the right?

Southern Baptists Vote to Oppose IVF

The Southern Baptist Convention signaled their disapproval of in vitro fertilization in a Wednesday vote.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

I feel it's necessary to document its beauty ... before it becomes a sandwich.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 month

Whispers: I am open to queries… CAVEAT: We are a “one response is a response from all” agency so choose wisely who you query at Spencerhill. We do forward each other queries tho. SECOND: I’m no longer Spencerhill’s only kidlit Agent! @bethanyfulk is also open to queries & …

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 months

It's wild to think there are people out there waiting to be discovered. I hope I get to discover a bunch of the writerly ones. Maybe I can start calling myself a treasure hunter?

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

3 years

#MSWL when I reopen in January, one thing (not the only thing) I'll be looking for is a lot of genre stuff that is very either funny or satirical or slightly weird, or quirky. Think genre+this. Scifi, fantasy, romance, speculative, thriller, action/adventure, horror--kid & adult.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 years

Literally me answering your queries is so hard. On my end, you have to know I'm thinking: do I love this? Will readers love it? Is there a market for it? Do I know editors who want it? Do I already have something similar/too much on my list? Do I fight for this?

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 years

I have now answered every query in QM I received PRIOR to closing to queries at the beginning of summer. I've got inbox zero for when I reopen tomorrow.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

I believe good stories sometimes hide behind slow starts. So ask your CPs when they finally “fall into the story,” where they can’t stop reading. Figure out how to start there. Agents don’t have⏰to find that spot when reading samples! Don’t miss opportunity #writetip #querytip

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 month

@ItsSoLinz Bet other women blessed with a more “demure” chest would be allowed to wear that. This is what we call the Double D Double Standard. 😭

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

If I think about the millions upon millions of words that come through my inbox each year, it’s a little astounding and a little humbling. So many words. So much work. So much heart. So much hope.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

3 months

10 pm & we got a deal! Long negotiation but everyone’s happy on all sides! I’m of the ilk that the best kinds of deals are fair & make everyone, so everyone can be successful as a unit! Publishing is supposed to be a partnership after all! Can’t wait to announce this one!!

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

8 months

Enough people said, "Now you tell me you need stakes in my query's pitch" that I was HORRIBLY worried people don't understand the basic elements of story! So here's a new blog post on: "Back to Basics: Elements of Story and the High-Concept Pitch"

Back to Basics: Elements of Story & the High-Concept Pitch

If you know what the elements of a saleable book are, then the pitch is your opportunity to showcase them. So, let’s get back to basics… I’m not gonna lie, it’s bad out ther…

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

I did the thing.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 years

I have SEVEN notifications of offers in my Query Manager inbox to give you an idea of the kinds of choices an agent has to manage. There's only so much time in the day, and so much room on my list.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 years

Just remember your query is the place to give us a short plot summary, but you must ALSO include the STAKES of your story. If I'm curious about your "hook," but you don't tell me what's at stake for your characters, I don't have time to read 90,000 words+/- to find out. #querytip

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

11 months

Literally, my authors are geniuses. I love them all so much. I mean that. Personally. Professionally. What a wonderful group of talented, caring humans.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

It’s always wild when you read an authors work and are just baffled as to why they haven’t found their agent person yet! (Also: super fun for me!)

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

I can't possibly read all the querys with offers in my inbox. I am feeling very human and freezing up at the thought of reading/responding to all. 😣

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

11 months

When it's the end of the year nearly and you're suddenly sitting on three deal announcements...

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

7 months

Why not jump into the prologue discourse? I’ve signed & sold multiple books with prologues. Though I never call them that. Mentally I call them “fauxlogues” & set them off with nothing or a symbol. They are usually no more than 2 pages. They aren’t backstory. They are set up.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

3 years

Yesterday I lost a close, precious family member, and today our Max crossed the rainbow bridge. He was almost eleven. I'm a blubbery mess. But I know he'll make a good companion in heaven, and I can be grateful for that. Bye buddy. Bye aj.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

So I've got about 209 queries in about 36 hours of being open in case anyone's curious ...

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 months

Things are slow in publishing until they are fast.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

CLOSING TO QUERIES FOR THE SUMMER! 🌴🌴🌴🥥🥥🥥🏖️🏖️🏖️🩴🩴🩴 I will be closing to queries for the summer starting next Wednesday, May 24 - July 31, so get those queries in!!!

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 years

#querytip querying authors, in your bio if you don't have writing accolades, I still love knowing your day job and some tidbit about you. I read samples first and if I go back to your query, that's often missing (probably to keep things short). I mean, give me a sentence or two!

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

Got to give a client the best news today! Absolute best part of the job, with holding the finished book in hand a close second!

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 month

Yes, I am reopening to queries very soonish.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 years

For transparency, I've seen a bunch of querying authors asking about agents deals, and many don't have access to Publisher's Marketplace, so I've made an attempt to put all mine up on my personal web site. If you're curious, this is me: Deals

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

3 months

It is a truth universally acknowledged that traditional publishing requires patience and a long game. Sure, sometimes things happen rapid fire fast, but that’s the exception and not the rule. Patience, thick skin and clear-minded expectations are needed if this is your goal.

Brandy Vallance, Literary Agent & Author

@BrandyVallance

3 months

It took 14 years for my 1st book to get trad. published. I often wanted to give up. I know what it's like to fight despair. Writing is hard. Querying is hard. Holding your published book is amazing. But don't forget that you have SO MUCH worth now. Not just when you're published.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

Please, please DON'T PAY someone to get published. Publishers are supposed to PAY YOU. If the trad pub route is not for you (after deep introspection & multiple books queried, etc), then self-publish but don't pay someone $3K+ to publish your book. A workman's worth their wages.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 years

I'm so excited to see so many responses to my MSWL. Seems like I've hit a nerve people are writing in. So let's talk passes on MSWLs. There's more hurt when you respond to one of these & get a pass. The refrain goes, "But this was perfect for her. I gave her what she asked for."

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4 years

Who all has had a week? Please raise your hand. 🙋‍♀️🙋🙋‍♂️ 🙋‍♀️🙋🙋‍♂️ 🙋‍♀️🙋🙋‍♂️ ‘Cause I feel like this has been a week for a lot of folks.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 years

Unexpectedly lost our sweet one-year-old girl Mila today from a sudden illness. She was the most precious girl.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

5 years

I am answering queries from October. I am LEGIT behind. The "I will answer in 12 weeks" or its a pass rule does not apply when I get 1000 queries in a 4-month time period. I think some agents are super human & stay on top of their inbox. But, I'm human when it comes to them!

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

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I wish I had more time for pleasure reading as an agent BUT the thing about this job is you often get the pleasure of being one of the FIRST to read something that you know so, so many other people are going to be reading for their own pleasure one day. It’s a cool job. 📚

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

Back open to queries so let's do a current #MSWL :

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

Well, I just got to give THE BEST news to one of my sweet clients who has been with me almost since the beginning. I might have had some tears well up at the same time the joy did. Praise where praise is due!

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

It's really easy to sit at home & insulate ourselves from what's going on right now. Until it hits you and meets you personally. We are going to lose a friend today, maybe tomorrow. We loved him so much. We love his family so much. I'm so mad at this virus. We are sick, in tears.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

I wonder if other agents feel this way. You read a manuscript you love so much, so early on, that you wish you were done with it so you could just offer already, but you savor it instead and kind of just spoon feed it to yourself so can enjoy its every flavor. *that me right now*

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

11 months

I have SEVEN notices of offers in my inbox all due in basically TWO weeks. 😳

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 years

Authors please know during this season of the year, multiple offers are coming in. Agents only have so much bandwidth & space on our lists + families & it's the holidays. I have teenagers. So there may be some polite quick step-asides from us.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

3 months

This is gross. What is this, the 1950’s? If you want to have kids, wonderful. But if you want to run a studio, or a hedge fund, or be a brain surgeon, or high-rise construction worker, more power to you. Literally, what is behind this push to keep women barefoot & pregnant?

lacey 🤍 hates it here ⸆⸉

@stateoflace13

3 months

Hey @Newsweek this is absolutely disgusting and 🖕🏻🖕🏻

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@HerringAli

4 years

Publishing makes you patient. Pass it around.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

5 years

@Adequate_Scott @orangejuls1975 @Nicole_Cliffe I mean, are the parents who attended on a group chat or something about this? Because I would be.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

2 years

I'm thinking about what it was like to be a new literary agent building my list, establishing myself, finding clients to love, meeting like-minded editors, hawkishly watching a quiet inbox, wondering about my future. YOU can do it. It takes time, patience, luck, stick-to-itness.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

I'm reading a full manuscript that gives me the same kind of feels as when I read the first Harry Potter book. It's not the same bag of chips, but has that same good-feeling magic to it and a very similar voice, but with a lot more quirk, and that's definitely a good thing...

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

9 months

Check it out, you can use publishers marketplace for free until Jan 1.

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@HerringAli

10 days

I do not remember hiring a feline assistant yet he still insists on helping! Credit to my oldest daughter for this snap and saving the laptop from cat-astrophe. 🐱

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

I. Am. Reading. Something. Special. Wow.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

6 years

#MSWL I’m drawn to high-concept commercial fiction with a literary flair! I also love a funny MG voice. I want all the YA & MG (contemporary, sci-fi, fantasy, paranormal). Yes to spooky MG and coming age. Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense, (Secular and Inspirational).

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

There are so many opinions in the world. Never forget that as you query. Never forget that as you go on sub. Never forget that when you're published & the reviews start coming in. There are so many opinions in the world.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

3 years

Trust your gut. Trust your gut. Trust your gut. Trust your gut. Trust your gut. Period. Trust your gut.

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

Just gonna put this right here ...

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

By some miracle, I have managed to read every query in my inbox before reopening on 1/4. If you queried me and did not get a response, your query has been marked for further consideration. Congrats, you are in what I call my “maybe pile.”

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

4 years

#amquerying folks... Noticing a trend in my queries today for YA that is too short. Like I'm seeing 50K and 55K YA. Contemporary YA can be around 60-85K (aim for 75-85K) & 60K feels too short for me personally. YA SFF 70-100K (85-95K sweet spot).

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Ali Herring

@HerringAli

1 year

So, how ya'll doing today? Twitter is too quiet for me lately.

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