PUBLISHING TIP: Best number of comps.

In a pitch to agents.

• Five is good.
• Seven is too many.
• Six seems authentic.
• Each comp should bring to your query a different element of the book. In my novel, the travel adventure of a sexual trauma survivor who uses Tai chi as a way to healing, I highlighted the sexual trauma (The Lovely Bones, Bastard out of Carolina), travel, (The Beach, Losing Gemma), and a survivor’s spiritual search (She’s Come Undone, Gods with a Little g).