Building your Query List

Hello!

In this episode we talk about building your query list. What ways can and should you track agents you’ve queried? What sort of research should you do on an agent beforehand? What do partial and full requests mean? All explained in this episode of Publishing Pals :)

Here are some of the authors, artists, and other things we brought up during the episode. Just a disclaimer - please do not take our word as fact. The publishing industry is always changing, and often we are talking about things we are remembering from a while ago or have heard from others. While the agent deep dive is always fact checked, we do not prep for these episodes or look up other information beforehand. It’s always important to do your own research! If we realize after the fact that we have gotten anything wrong, we will do our best to correct it in the show notes.

Jim McCarthy, the agent from our agency deep dive:

https://www.dystel.com/jim-mccarthy
https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/jim-mccarthy/
https://www.instagram.com/jimmccarthy528/

https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/dealmakers/detail.cgi?id=789

List of pitch events (many have moved over to Bluesky!):

https://www.futureworldsediting.co.uk/twitter-pitch-events-2024/

Manuscript Wish List:

http://manuscriptwishlist.com/ 

Books we talked about:

Beasts of Prey:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/beasts-of-prey-ayana-gray/17371592?ean=9780593405703&next=t

Wonder:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/wonder-r-j-palacio/7364522?ean=9780375869020&next=t