That face when you sent at least two query letters where you accidentally a word 🫠

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Querying is a strange kind of waiting: you send your heart out and hear nothing for months. If you're in the trenches right now, you're not alone, and the silence isn't a verdict.

How's your querying week going?

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Tobe has always been the demon hunters whisper about but losing this war against the settlers pushes him past fury. A desperate bargain sends him back in time to save his enemy Kura, a trans man he's meant to kill.

-Lgbt romantic fantasy horror with indigenous MC

#DVpit #Querying #NA #LGBT #DF

Presenting my Agent's guide for WE WERE ALL DEFECTS - A YA Dystopian Thriller with a delicious slow-burn romance.

#ya #querying #agentsguide

ARTICULATE|85k adult dark academia fantasy

BABEL X BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN = ARTICULATE
💫 Institutional betrayal
💫 Found family
💫 Forbidden magic
💫 Slow burn romance
#dvpit #querying #a #f #woc #imm

Reese blames his ADHD for the demons around him, until he realizes his comfy new job is in Purgatory, his boss is Lucifer and Reese is falling for "Luc"

PRIDE, a 35,000-word paranormal comedy, book one of the LGBTQ+ Deadly Sins series. QUERYING!
#DVpit #Querying #NA #LGBT

🩸 On the run from the revivalist community that reduced her to reproductive labor, a pregnant woman navigates a collapsed landscape to reach a rumored refuge while grappling with her complicity in her own pregnancy and her role in the new world she lives in.

#A #LF #DVPit #ASIAN author #querying!

Feared as a demon and losing a war he can't win, Tobe travels back in time to keep his enemy Kura alive, only to find their hatred curdling into something far harder to resist.

KISSING THE DEMON, an LGBTQIA+ romantic fantasy horror novel. Querying!

#DVpit #Querying #NA #LGBT #F

🥀 THE LAST OF US x THE HANDMAID’s TALE

Mercy’s pregnancy makes her a liability outside the walls of her revivalist community, but she’s determined to find a better life with better options, even if she’s sure might not deserve it.

#A #LF currently #querying for #DVPit!
#WOC #Asian

What if I told you I've written a fantasy novel inspired by Puerto Rican culture, folktales, and botanical magic?

Here's all the deets.

Working title: INDIGO TEETH
Currently #querying

Part2. When you Try to Read Your Poem to your Kid. #kidlit #amwriting #querying #parenting #funny

Emerging from my two-month disappearance like nothing happened. 👀 Still writing. Still querying (with four new full requests still pending👀). So, what did I miss?

Getting ready for #DVpit!

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Imagine you’re sitting next to a literary agent… 📚

What’s the one question you’d love to ask them? 👀

We would love to know! 👇

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What have I been up to the past 3+ years? Here's a peak as I currently polish sample chapters and #book proposal for #querying #CNF #agents and #publishers. (The phrase 'my brain darkening' is borrowed from verses in 'Bog Queen' by Seamus Heaney.) #Booksky📚

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The phrase 'my brain darkening' is borrowed from Heaney's 'Bog Queen.' I'm polishing sample chapters and #book proposal to begin #querying CNF #agents and #publishers. A wee peak into my research and #writing the past 3+ years while I completed a writing MFA:

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Every writer knows that your 1st line, 1st page, 1st chapter are the most critical words in your ms. To catch readers & agents w/ this first impression, ask: what am I promising here? Am I moving the story forward immediately WHILE introducing my world & characters? #literaryagent #querying #booksky

BLACK GIRL MONSTER that title and premise hit hard. Social score, custody, and becoming the monster the system already treats you as that's layered. #querying with a book this sharp must be its own ride. How's it going so far?

Querying is a strange exercise in confidence: condense 90,000 words you love into 300 words, send them to a stranger, then try not to interpret silence as literary criticism.
Writers in the query trenches: what part of the process surprised you most? #writers #writing #querying