In today’s Books with Hooks segment, Bianca and guest agent, Rachel McMillan, discuss the importance of social media presence tailoring your queries to specific agents putting your best content forward and word count expectations.Īfter which, Bianca chats with Caroline Kepnes, author of the YOU series, about the charming façade of serial killers how she created her own major in college how Joe Goldberg is a fascinating contradiction getting inside Joe’s head the intentionality of setting making a villain vulnerable how to feel what your character would feel writing physicality early readers and unlikable characters and giving a villain backstory to make readers empathize.įind us on our can be found on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter: and at Caroline can be found at on on Inquiries: During the segment, they discuss Jenny's choice of POV characters writing backstory the use of a prologue and an epilogue being an editor and an author and Jenny's advice for emerging writers.įind us on our can be found on Twitter at and on Instagram at Inquiries: In today’s Books with Hooks, Carly and CeCe each critique two submissions and cover topics like voice-y queries using direct and specific terms in a query letter selecting the right comps for the right reasons having the query letter match what’s in the opening pages close third-person POV having a short and tightly written query dual timelines vs backstory/flashbacks, series sneaky prologues passive framing of the hook activating your story and synopsizing the manuscript in the query letter,Īfter which, CeCe chats with Jenny Jackson, bestselling author of Pineapple Street and Vice President and Executive Editor for Knopf.

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