Querying feels a lot like shouting into the void. But even in the quiet, someone is listening.

Hang in there. Keep writing. Keep believing.

#AmQuerying #ThursdayMotivation #WritingCommunity

One of the things I’m repeating to myself on the journey of ✨querying✨. I have an impatient soul and I think October is trying to teach me a thing or two.
#amquerying #writingcommunity #booksky #successmindset

My 7 y/o fell asleep in my arms tonight while I sang hush little baby for the first time in ages… and suddenly nothing else matters 🩷 #momlife

It’s true. #booksky

At this point I think all my screen time is spent refreshing my email inbox hoping for a query response… 🫠
#amquerying #writingcommunity #booksky

Simplicity has been commodified and this 11-year-old challenges everything we believe about it.
What’s the one thing you’d keep if you were on the prairie? #booksky #writingcommunity #parenting #momlife #dadlife
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This is exactly why I have self published in the past. It’s not that I don’t understand the “business part”… I just haven’t spent a lot of time cultivating patience. Then to get on other social platforms and see people wake up to full MS requests after like 2 days of waiting baffles & frustrates me.

Well I sent a fresh batch of queries exactly a week ago and, so far, radio silence...🤐
Time to refresh and send another batch I think. 🫠
#amquerying #mswl #WritingCommunity

All im saying is passionate women who want to be creative and beloved have always existed. In fiction and outside of it.
But it takes a heck of a lot of courage! #feminist #writer #author #booksky #amquerying #creativity #readingcommunity
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Read this if you’re feeling a little lost, in your writing, in your life, in your cup of coffee.

substack.com/@themulberry... #writer #substack #writingcommunity #startingover #leanin #author #morningmotiviation #honesty

Reposting my #agentguide for a manuscript I truly believe in (and so have all the people I’ve asked to read it). ✨
67k word fast-paced, nostalgic romance + lit fic blend.
Layered timelines too!
#literaryagent #writingcommunity #mswl #booksky #writesky

Posted my first article to #substack 🫣 about the manuscript I currently #amquerying and how the concept started #nospoilers #fiction #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #literaryagent

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I think the idea of “you’re only as hot as your last hit” is becoming an increasingly popular concept in the author/writing world.

Do you ever feel authors are held to an impossible standard if their previous works have done extremely well?

#writingcommunity #readingcommunity #literaryagent

Ooh I like this idea! 💡 Very strategic! I hope the list isn’t too long

Annotating one of the comps for my fast-paced sports romance + literary fiction blend and having the best time!

Do you dive into your comps when querying?
#amquerying #amwriting #writingcommunity #author

If a full MS request wound up in my inbox today, I wouldn’t be mad about it…

#amquerying #literaryagent #manifesting #tomancewriter

To write today or to read today? That is the question forever on a loop in my brain…
#writingcommunity #readingcommunity

The way that I am DEVASTATED I missed #DVpit when I JUST made an #agentguide has me sick. So I’m posting for the sake of posting… Alas, maybe next year 🫣 #writingcommunity #fiction #literaryagent