What Agents Like/Don’t Like

Miss Snark doesn’t like dead kids.
Agent X likes YA fantasy involving ghosts and a girl who can talk to them.
More on personal taste here at Dystel and Goderich’s blog.
(PS: regardless of how an agent feels about your manuscript, he or she do not always like gifts.)

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