10 Questions to ask an editor/agent when you meet

If you have a chance to pitch to an agent or editor, go ahead and talk about your book. But if conversation peters out or if you end up in a bar or at dinner or in some other social situation with an agent or editor, here are some questions you can safely ask without sounding like you are hounding him/her to accept your book RIGHT NOW:

1.What is the best book you read this year?

2. What books are you most proud of repping/editing?

3. What do you love about being an agent/editor?

4. What annoys you most about the publishing industry at the moment?

5. What genres are you looking for right now?

6. What do you think new writers should know that they don’t seem to?

7. What kind of social media do you think helps?

8. What do you see new authors making mistakes about?

9. What must-read book have you never read and why?

10. What kind of plot do you think has been done to death?