Q&A Thursday

Data Edition

Hi friends,

Do you have questions? Great! I have answers. Shall we dive in today?

M asks: I am about to start querying a historical book club [novel], a rather quirky story. The two closest comps I can find are not historical fictions. Is that problematic for the query letter?

A: It’s not problematic to use books outside your genre as comps as in it is verboten to do so. But it could be problematic because they might not be very useful comps. For a