At Life the Universe and Everything symposium, there was a panel on query letters and other topics.

• Even serious moments have humor
• Querying – get the correct name be concise keep it to one page. New adult is the age range of teen two young 20s publishes a looking for this.
• SF signal – blog you can determine the popularity of a blog I the number of comments. Find bloggers that you like and see who they like.
• For serials on the web or Amazon this something new every three or four months
• A hybrid author is someone who will publish their work to both the publisher as well as online. Some authors will create a backlist the stories that will be sold online and then they will publish with a publisher. Then they will earn money to the publisher and when an audience likes the book, they will buy your backlist
• If you’re funny show it in your query.
• Other notes:
• Audiobooks – overdrive is available to the library.
• We three men are an audiobook by Terry Pratchett. Check it out

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