Real Life Advice--for queries, writing, job apps

Yes, I teach at a university, but I still agree with this post and Janet Reid's follow up advice:

The rule of thumb here is: give the most weight to the advice given by people actually DOING the work you want to do or making the decisions about your work.



In other words:

for queries listen to agents.

for writing listen to editors.

for job applications listen to the people doing the hiring.

The original post is here:http://bookendslitagency.blogspot.com/2011/08/real-life-advice.html