Ha!

[erastes]

Thank you to storm_grant for this list of how to query agents from Janet Reid (Literary Agent) and which blows away most of which we know - I particularly like number five;

5. Write what you don't know. I recently attended a panel sponsored by the New York Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, and it was interesting to me that five of the six authors had created a protagonist in their own image. That's all well and good, but I'm much more interested in the people I don't see every day. The one author who mentioned her protagonist was a Pakistani terrorist was the author I went out and bought the next day.

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[mongrelheart.livejournal.com]

5. Write what you don't know.
That's awesome! I've never liked the old "write what you know" saying, it seems so limiting.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I agree - who wants to read about the rubbish life I lead?