Write Without the Fight

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Write Without the Fight
Defining Your Novel, and Finding Comps

Defining Your Novel, and Finding Comps

The Audacity of Comparing Your Book to Lessons in Chemistry!

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Julia Roberts
Apr 30, 2025
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Defining Your Novel, and Finding Comps
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Defining Your Book

For reasons I didn’t fully understand, an agent query letter must include something called “Comps.” These are books like yours. But interestingly, they are not just books you think are like yours, but ones they will think are like yours.

And “like yours” is by definition:

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