Comments on: The name game http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/09/the-name-game/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Elizabeth Lynd http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/09/the-name-game/comment-page-1/#comment-38575 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 22:50:39 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=10636#comment-38575 So now I wonder: if you have two pretty good titles for your manuscript, but with vastly different tones, should you offer both when you query? Perhaps in the final paragraph? Certainly once someone is a client they would share this and the agent could make the call for submitting to editors, but would just confuse the issue when shopping for an agent?

And while we’re talking titles, let me ask this as well: Let’s say you have significantly revised a manuscript, almost to the point where it’s a new novel. (Story changes, POV, the whole banana.) (This one’s not me, by the way.) Six months or a year later, with a new title, do you think it’s okay to re-query agents who passed on the query the first go-round? This is assuming these are agents who asked for pages with the query.

Thanks! And congratulations to you both!

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