The idea that agents+editors need to identify with an MC to offer comes from a new age hyper-individualist, egocentric approach to reading. Are we to believe that for centuries people only enjoyed stories they “saw themselves in” and never ventured beyond this solipsistic view?
@PauloNoggy
But all the men are amazing 🙄 men don’t realize that if u lead with ur salary as ur best quality then you’re going to get women for whom that’s a priority and sorry they aren’t going to care about your reading preferences or that you like to hike.
@gailmoon
@ytirawi
@Frances_Coppola
None of the soldiers in the IDF had family suffer in the Holocaust. They would see the parallels too clearly. These are people whose lives have been nothing but privilege enacting extreme violence on a weaker population because they think it’s fun.
@HilaryHarwell
But why not ask for an R&R to see if this querying author can address your vision/adjustments? Why try to ship this concept to a whole other person?
@anaraintuitive
@SethAckerman
You say “Palestinian Arabs keep trying to invert themselves into the victim position of the Jews, and invert Jews into their position of aggressors and oppressors” as if Jewish people have a monopoly on the “victim position.”’You all sound like new-age genocide deniers 🤮
If agents are constantly setting aside fulls to tackle offers of rep from authors that aren’t even on their radar how do they ever get to a full that they might actually be interested in? Is this the source of the query slowdown?
How cool would it be if agents did intros like writers are doing now and shared a bit about themselves and their MSWLS? So we could get a vibe for who we would actually mesh with? Game-changing
#WritingCommunity
@notroaa
@deejahimawari
Don’t shop, consume media or do any other consumer activity beyond the bare essentials. If you can afford to take the day off, that too ❣️
@Frances_Coppola
@gailmoon
@ytirawi
They are blinded by the illusion of their own supremacy. If you take a look at Jews who are zioniat vs antizionist then you will see that the ones calling against the violence are families (like mine) who suffered greatly in the Holocast. Those who support zionism mostly did not.
@GaryScottKadet
Seriously Gary there are SO MANY people following literary agents (associates too of course) and you might be sad & jaded but the rest of us are delighted to find out when someone is opening up to queries. Twtr is actually can be our best resource! Pro tip: smile more ☺️
There is a sample query letter from an agent making the rounds RN and I just need to stick my neck out let newbie authors know to follow their gut and look for multiple alternatives and collegial advice because this rambling letter is NOT IT 🫠
#WritingCommmunity
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@ViPutrament
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@annarajagopal
In the early days of October when the world gave unflinching support to Israel to inflict a brutal retribution in the name of “all Jews” it was vital for anti-zionist Jews to speak up and reject these claims and encourage others to speak up too. They hardly center themselves.
Always late to the
#writersoftwitter
party but here I am 🫣 Vi Putrament, author of grounded SFF and my moodboard for my dark academia in space — Ultraluminous ✨🌝✨
As a teenager, I used to read I Claudius. Did I see myself as Claudius? No. But I enjoyed the book. Hell, did I “connect” with the Sweet Valley Twins? No but I envied them massively and that made me want to devour evert single book in BOTH series 🙃
@Bobilan18
@BarefootJewess
These “babies” don’t exist. What is wrong with you??? Ignoring real-life suffering but crying over made-up scenarios. This in bonkers.
Sometimes agents’ MSWLs are more useful for figuring out who not to query. Most of the time, people with strict limits on what they will read or consider aren’t the best champion for a writer’s career in the long-term anyway.
Saw an agent state on their MSWL they don’t want books rooted in reality. They only read for escapism. I didn’t know writers only write for agents and no one else.
It’s crazy to think that when Palestinians hear a baby cry they rush to help. So Israelis use the sound of a child in distress to lure in and murder more Palestinians — mainly children.
You have to give it to IOF though, they have found Palestinians' achilles heel: the sound of a baby in distress. Not something a people with a Hannibal Directive can relate to
😮 Nutty fact: Zionist billionaire couple in California whose pistachio plantation consumes more water than the entire city of Los Angeles lobbied to have US 🇺🇸 impose 241% tariffs on Iranian 🇮🇷 pistachios, which are far superior,
to protect their pistachio monopoly👇
Because I am Jewish and lost my family in the Holocaust, I have been afforded the ability to recognize evil when I see it.
Israel’s genocide of Palestinians is an undeniable evil that the world will take decades to atone for.
I pity those in the west for their vile ignorance.
Because I am Jewish, I have been afforded the ability to recognize evil when I see it. And for that, I am grateful.
I pity those in the West who are unable to identify evil as it is staring them in the face. Difficult and painful lessons await them. Lessons Jews already learned,
@itskenbook
@BradSherman
Zionist students are staying home to cosplay victimhood while Jewish students protest genocide — is that so hard to understand?
It’s wild to imagine the impact this one photograph had on the understanding of the suffering in Vietnam among Americans and the horrified response. Meanwhile we see hundreds such images today of Palestinian children maimed and massacred—and despite our protests, it goes on 💔
@BarefootJewess
@BoulboulMasriah
Kids need to take a punch??? The more zionists I see the more horrified I am by their ingrained thirst for violence and oppression.
@Gaia13889352
@isnuancealive
@Frances_Coppola
@gailmoon
@ytirawi
I lost nearly all my family in the Holocaust and couldn’t fathom inflicting that same pain on another people, especially an indigenous people. Most people who support zionism (from what I have observed) lost nothing in the Holocaust. So the answer is “no” Mr
@isnuancealive
Memes.
@jes_trudel
It’s never in the author’s interest to supply a publishing professional with multiple concepts and no assurance that 1) you will be represented by that agent and 2) that agent won’t find bits of your concept appealing for their existing clients.
@EX1LEISR
@JewishWarrior13
Horrifying that you and other commenters wish to see fear and suffering in the eyes of children S says quite a lot about character.
@JayMoneWrites
Or subbing directly to publishers thru mentor programs like that penguin one or competitions. I’d never be published if I had kept waiting for an agent to pay attention to me 🥺
Amazing how people use their time & resources just to be cruel & punch down on other authors like the villain in the most mediocre of middle grade fiction 😅
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@sally_hines
, I've given your book 'Is Gender Fluid?' to several people who want a short primer on what gender identity ideology's all about. So far, 100% of readers have rated it self-contradictory, unevidenced bollocks. You have my permission to use that quote on the cover.
Sign the
#KitLit4Ceasefire
letter to Biden by Jan. 28th!
1 million Palestinian children direly need a permanent
#ceasefireNOW
& humanitarian aid, which are being withheld with support of
@POTUS
& Congress!
RAISE YOUR VOICE & RT! Every minute counts.
@igal_n
@orenbarsky
Pretty sick if you think killing patients and displaced people in a hospital is impressed. This is the most disgusting act in modern times. This and six months of atrocities. Shame.
@___eb__
@jpodhoretz
If you’re suggesting the Holocaust didn’t happen then you are as vile as those denying the Palestinian genocide today. Most of my family died in the Holocaust. That’s irrefutable and genocide deniers are repugnant.
Spontaneously reminded why I stopped querying last year for my mental health & chosen instead to keep waiting for an angel to swoop in and deliver my MS to an editor without me having to suffer another ten years of “great story but couldn’t relate” rejections 🫠
And they will tell you that your innovative, groundbreaking book “doesn’t fit into the market” or doesn’t have a place on the shelf.”
Writers, let’s build new shelves.
I mean if you think about it it is kind of insane that for some genres, the entirety of trad pubbed work in the English language is decided by like 12 people’s personal preferences
@ParmisLJavan
@Eve_Barlow
And pro-genocide Jews can’t destroy the moral core we had before the west made us scapegoats for their warmongering in the Holy Land! 🙏🏼
@jes_trudel
If an agent enjoys your subbed project enough to want to take the next step, then that’s the time to talk about other pitches — once a rapport has been established.
This is precisely WHY we have formed, and WHY we are anonymous. Too many people in publishing live in fear of attracting this kind of behaviour from people who disagree with us. We need to have grown up sensible conversations about these issues.
@emprestheodora
@YaariCohen
One ought to include the regime that knew of the attack and allowed it to happen, even commanding their soldiers to stand back for hours, while they came in with Apache helicopters to raze everything in sight.
@Riftsrunner
@darylkessler
@NotYourFool10
@jk_rowling
@damekatydenise_
Nope, they have not paid for them. Bookshops get books on credit. Otherwise they’d all be bankrupt. Anyway, most bookshops would prefer you carry fresher books, not the same old derivative drivel — but they are forced to by, yes, capitalism 😅
@MikeGarfie41285
Jewish children aren’t the ones being kilked maimed and orphaned right now so let’s focus on reality, people. Rather than self-indulgent hysteria.
OK now I think I finally get how hard agenting is after seeing all the incredible
#questpit
posts, like how would a mortal choose just a few amidst all this amazingness? An impossible task 🥹
Because my feed is full of people getting a million requests and offers (and I'm genuinely happy for each and every one of you), I'm here to inform you that I'm drowning in rejections and haven't gotten a request in what might be a million years 🥳
#amquerying
@jzimelstern
Dark stain on history is thousands of children left without limbs, parents, healthcare, education, and the list goes on 💔 monstrous crimes against children.