I was scrolling through TikTok this weekend and an author was talking about the ultimate way to make sure editors and agents not only pay attention to you, but sign you. In this case, here is what she recommended.
Send in your submission and then follow it up with an email saying that there are a ton of other people wanting to read the project. She claims that agents immediately drop what they are doing, read your project and want to buy it.
Ummmm, no.
We know you send out simultaneous submissions. Sorry, but this common. But if you start claiming other people are begging for your project, and that is not true, that lie is going to come back and bite you in the butt.
Understand this. If I like your project, I am going to call and talk to you about the project. Your lie WILL come out in that discussion. To add to this, remember that an author-agent relationship is built on a big word TRUST.
If you are someone who lies, I cannot trust you.
There are far too many people out there claiming all of these tricks to get us to read your project and sign you. These are gimmicks. In the end, we want those stories that are quality. And we don't want lying and manipulative authors.
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