The querier has me all confused with their premises. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Snark is not informed on this] Reference
The querier said she only wanted "the courtesy of a quick look". From Wordnik.com. ["The courtesy of a quick look"] Reference
So what good do any of them do for the querier who embraces them?. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » How to write a really good query letter, part III: eschewing the annoyance factor, or, hey, wasn’t that tree alive yesterday?] Reference
Why, your garden-variety querier wonders, need it be so cruelly short?. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » At long last, the synopsis!] Reference
What many a querier shows agents is, instead, that he only wants to work with himself. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
So now, not only am I an Unprofessional Angry Spider Money union, not legion I am also querier. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Colony Review in the Pioneer Press « Whatever] Reference
The people at my table took that to mean that the querier had queried the agency, not the agent. From Wordnik.com. [Nitwittery Abounding over the Maine] Reference
What do you call making a querier write ANOTHER letter to an agent who has already agreed to read my work?. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Wrapping it all up, part II: what precisely should go in that box?] Reference
What do you call making a successful querier or pitcher write ANOTHER letter to an agent who has already agreed to read my work?. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2009 » October] Reference
Fortunately the querier saw it and did respond in a timely enough fashion that she didn't get a nice rejection letter for Thanksgiving. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Snark Captured in a Spam Filter!!] Reference
This is not dishonest — neither a pitcher nor a querier is under any actual obligation to state the length of the manuscript up front. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2008 » July] Reference
Sometimes, this request does come out of a genuinely blue sky, whacking a conscientious multiple querier or submitter right in the noggin. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2010 » September] Reference
For a quick, visual-aid-assisted run-down on why their being able to tell is bad news for the querier who does it, please see my last post. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2009 » August] Reference
For a quick, visually-aid-assited run-down on why their being able to tell is bad news for the querier who does it, please see my last post. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2008 » August] Reference
None — unless that querier happens to want to irritate Millicent the agency screener more than he wants to find an agent for his manuscript. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » How to write a really good query letter, part III: eschewing the annoyance factor, or, hey, wasn’t that tree alive yesterday?] Reference
To that end, I want to make absolutely certain that each and every querier and submitter out there understands two things — no, make that three. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2010 » September] Reference
In order not to run afoul of these wildly disparate expectations, a querier must be willing to do a bit of homework and follow individualized directions. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2009 » August] Reference
The only variation is whether I include "do query other agents" cause sometimes the work is so gawdawful, I'm hoping the querier never queries anyone ever again. From Wordnik.com. [Snarkling Sunday!] Reference
As I think would be quite apparent to your garden-variety querier writers talked amongst themselves more about both rejection and the nuts and bolts of querying. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2009 » August] Reference
For the last few days, I have been going through a checklist of questions a prudent querier should ask herself before popping that missive plus SASE, of course into the mail. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Your query letter, part VII: for the lack of a poetic moniker, the other stuff] Reference
Patience, oh scoffers: as I MAY have mentioned once or twice in the course of this admittedly rather extensive series, learning to pitch is going to make you a better querier. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Pitching 101, part XX: getting from ho-hum to “Interesting. I’ve never heard that before.”] Reference
Only if Millicent finds the query letter compelling will she read any of the attached materials at all, which has even more drawbacks for the querier than might at first be apparent. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Querypalooza, part XXII: slicing the pie attractively and stuffing it in a box. Or envelope. With a SASE.] Reference
While my primary focus here is on helping you create a pitch, going through each of the steps I outline here will undoubtedly make you a better querier, too, if not a better human being. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Book marketing 101: hitting the keynote, Hollywood-style, or, Godzilla meets Anne Frank] Reference
But he did not tell his friend that, so Quetzalcoatl in his turn assumed, naturally enough, that a querier as experienced as Quincy would automatically have leapt upon the tip and run with it. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Referral-seeking, part III: avoiding the wrath of the feathered serpent, or, how to win friends and influence people] Reference
A good trick to help avoid the first mistake: do your homework; if the agency has made the information publicly available, Millicent will expect any querier or submitter to be familiar with it. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Synopsis-writing 101, part II: the dreaded single-page synopsis, or, what to do when you can’t allow those mushrooms to multiply] Reference
Because in most agencies, conference-goers are regarded as a bit savvier than the average querier; their queries, therefore, tend to be taken a bit more seriously AND read with greater attention. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2008 » July] Reference
By not specifying which individual a query is targeting, the querier is implicitly asking the SCREENER to make the decision about which is the most appropriate in-house agent for the book being proposed. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Book marketing 101: Dear John, please don’t send a Dear Agent letter] Reference
Perhaps unfairly, to professional eyes, your example is another stripe of that ubiquitous Millicent-enrager, the query that makes it indisputably clear that the querier is just querying everyone in creation. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » What should a query letter look like, anyway? Part IV: the good, the bad, and the shrunken] Reference
Receiving result sets and sending them back to the querier. From Wordnik.com. [Intelligent Enterprise] Reference
Can’t you think of better ways for a querier to use that precious page space?. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2010 » September] Reference
So how, as Jake so insightfully asks, is a querier to know when he’s crossed the line between them?. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » How to write a really good query letter, part III: eschewing the annoyance factor, or, hey, wasn’t that tree alive yesterday?] Reference
But there’s still a benefit to the querier in sending those unsolicited materials if the agency says it’s okay, right?. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Querypalooza, part XXII: slicing the pie attractively and stuffing it in a box. Or envelope. With a SASE.] Reference
It’s virtually never the expectation when an agent or editor asks a successful querier or pitcher to send actual manuscript pages. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » The dreaded Frankenstein manuscript, part XXIII: how much detail is tutu much?] Reference
If you’re unsure about a Chris or an Alex, call the agency and ask; no need to identify yourself as anything but a potential querier. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2008 » August] Reference
It’s that dragging, soul-sucking feeling that every querier — and submitter, and contest entrant — feels if and when that SASE comes back stuffed with a rejection. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » How to write a really good query letter, part III: eschewing the annoyance factor, or, hey, wasn’t that tree alive yesterday?] Reference
Yes, “querier” is a real word. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Colony Review in the Pioneer Press « Whatever] Reference
How is the designated querier elected in IGMPv2?. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
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