Tag: Bios

The Slush Pile is open this week and you know what that means! TIPS FROM THE SLUSH PILE: While including your bio in your query letter, keep it to writing-related items, like most recent publications or awards for your work. If you don’t have any writing experience, that’s fine. But keep your bio short. No […]

Items listed in your bio should be your publishing credits or relevant to the story itself. I’ve said before to not ramble on and on, listing all your cats or your woes from childhood–UNLESS you wrote a book about cats or miserable childhoods. Today, I got a query where the only thing listed in the […]

Tips from the Slush Pile: Please do not open your query letter by telling me your age. Seriously. I don’t need to know your age at all, unless your book is specifically about or for people your age, and in that case, you can tell me that toward the end, in the bio section. Photo […]