Nathan Bransford, literary agent extraordinaire, recently asked if the query process still works – queries are the one page summary that writers submit to agents or publishers, outlining their book and credentials.
At the same time, I stumbled across the awesome new plaything that is Google Search Stories!
So why not combine the two?
In a Web 2.0 era when even books have trailers, here’s a Google Search Query for my middle grade science fiction novel Byrne Risk:
I will be soon querying Byrne Risk (for real), and I doubt I will be able to send out my Google Search Query for it. But I sooo wish I could!
It’s so much fun, Dark Omen decided to make one of his own:
Go create your own. Warning: seriously fun distraction.
Also: Thanks to The Year of Reading!
Your Google search query was seriously cool! I'm going to have to stay away from that. Looks like a site where I could lose a whole afternoon 🙂
Oh, man! I will not be distracted…I will not be distracted… 🙂
I haven't been to Nathan's post, but what an interesting question to pose. I'm curious as to what the consensus was, will have to take a look!
Oh wow. How inventive! Me likes very muchly 😉
@Sherrie Thanks! SO much fun. I almost feel guilty for tempting you. 🙂
@Shannon Ditto. 🙂
@Joanne I think the main alternatives were pretty conventional: use an assistant, take longer to respond, use a form submission. I'm not sure there was a true consensus other than "we think it works and/or we're not sure how else to do it."
@AA Thanks! I'm going to try to get my act together and enter your blog contest! 🙂