Q&A Thursday

The Five Month Answer

Hi friends,

I’m in a questiony mood today. Let’s find some answers.

J asks: Thanks so much for your honest, insightful answers to questions continually lobbed at you for Q&A Thursday. I've already learned so much from your current posts and the archives since becoming a subscriber last year. So without further ado, here is my two-part question: Would it be helpful to include that I'm neurodivergent in a query letter if one of my secondary characters is neurodivergent? Also, is it a good idea to mention that some of the characters experience cognitive behavior distortions like catastrophic thinking, labeling, fortune-telling, overgeneralizing, mental filtering, and personalizing at certain points in the book?

As an agent, would you be more or less inclined to read the sample pages accompanying a query letter that mentioned these things? The book isn't non-fiction self-help; it's a middle-grade fantasy.