How to Address Trends While Querying

I received a specific request to address timing one’s query to trends, but I’ll also write about how to think about trends while querying more broadly.

This isn’t going to be specific to what’s trending right now, nor is it meant to be genre-specific.

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I think it’s worth thinking about trends within publishing as falling into one of three tiers:

There are the trends on the bookshelves (now).

There are the trends that editors are noticing (soon).

There are the trends that agents are noticing (future).