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I built Write Query Hook to champion authors. Daily alerts. Smart agent-matching database launches May 2025. Your query process secret weapon. We handle the chaos so you can focus on the Craft. It starts here: www.writequeryhook.com/
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Fresh from the Slushwire 💌 wiretap:
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December 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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📫 part of yesterday's haul for writers in the trenches:
Agent Kemi Ogunsanwo opened to queries at https://querytracker.net/agent/11922

much more at https://writequeryhook.com

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December 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Recon from beyond the trenches:
"Is a “hope you keep us in mind in the future” a good sign..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/1pjb9k2

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December 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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One of the 👽 /PubTips 👽 greats:

[PubQ] I’ve signed with my agent! Stats, reflections and a b...

https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1ckpfzv

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December 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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📖🦈 Query Shark anyone?

https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2009/09/

original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com

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December 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Slushwire 💌 just doing its job for you:
Agent Larissa Melo Pienkowski opened to queries at https://querytracker.net/agent/11127

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December 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Fresh from the Slushwire 💌 wiretap:
"[QCRIT] Debutante | Dystopian/Fantasy | 112k | 4th attempt"
https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1phivv5

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December 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Today, our weekly Slushwire issue #49 informed writers of 145 opportunities to land an agent and query stronger!

If you are in the query trenches join the club and start querying faster and smarter at writequeryhook.com!

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December 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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We did it! I know our account has been crickets but we've been busy building and launching our new platform to help writers get agents!

To celebrate we are giving you a free month - just use code SLUSHYMONTH - or - for 50% off one year use code SLUSHY50

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August 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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📣 Only 12 days left to send in your submissions! 📣

We are looking for short speculative fiction under 5,000 words, translations under 3,500 words, and flash fiction. We offer $0.10/word.

For more details on submissions, check out our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
July 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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82 industry alerts went out to our subscribers this week!

We watch the industry internet so you don't have to.

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July 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Fast approaching the 4th birthday of my memoir & it's always wild to remember that on the very day we got an offer from Norton, I got a form rejection from an agent I had queried 7 months prior. It's all subjective, friends. Keep telling your story to those who are ready to listen.
July 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Major new feature launching soon!

If you haven't already, consider joining us to level up your query game.

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June 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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This week's SlushWire went out later than usual last night. Check your inboxes!

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Header image for SlushWire Week #26 | 23–29 Jun. Features the SlushWire logo in white serif font with a stylized drop at the end of the word "Wire", set against a dark blue background. Tagline reads "Your lantern in the query trenches." Below the logo are alert counts: Reddit (18), Bluesky (44), and Agents (10), totaling 72 alerts.
June 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Print submissions for Protean Magazine: Issue VI are now open.

Send us your most affecting poems, or your best essay pitches and/or drafts—we want to read your incisive, rigorous, lyrical critiques of American decay, social pathology, and imperial decline.

Guidelines: proteanmag.com/submissions
June 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Hey Writers! Here's some thoughts on submissions and rejections and ... janefriedman.com/silence-the-... #booksky #readersky #blueskybooks #readers #writers #authors #blueskyreaders #discover #writingnews #writercommunity #pleaseshare #writingtips #writing #submissions #discovery #readthis
Silence: The New Rejection That's Expanding in Insidious Ways | Jane Friedman
When agents and publishers refuse to reply to submissions, is it any wonder that writers end up seeking validation from scammy alternatives?
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June 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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between @dimension20.bsky.social’s Cloudward, Ho! and Washington Black on Hulu (not to mention the enduring success of Arcane!), I really really *really* need steampunk to have its comeback in books as well!!! give me goggles! airships! weird retro technology!! magitech!!!! #mswl
June 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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American Poetry Journal ⭐ is accepting submissions through Duosuma. #WritingCommunity
Featured on Duosuma: American Poetry Journal
American Poetry Journal ⭐ is accepting submissions through Duosuma. #WritingCommunity
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June 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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SlushWire Sunday Dispatch delivered!

Thanks again for everyone who contributed during the pre-launch stage!

Exciting things on the way. Stay tuned: writequeryhook.com/slushwire/

#WritingCommunity #querytips #pubtips
A graphic for “SLUSHWIRE WEEK #25 | 16 – 22 JUN” is shown on a cream-colored background. In the center, there’s a large dark blue rectangle featuring the bold serif logo text “SlushWire” with a water droplet replacing the period at the end. Below the logo, a tagline reads: “Your lantern in the query trenches.” At the bottom, alert statistics are displayed: “ALERTS: 142” with breakdowns for Reddit (14), Bluesky (50), and Agents (78).
June 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Here, I'm taking your FREE PASS away today.

No, you can't lay in bed all day.
No, you can't leave messy dishes in the sink.
No, you can't not do laundry for weeks on end.

Bitch at me later. Stop giving yourself a free pass every time writing feels hard.

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June 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Big thank you to all our first users!

This will be a paid service starting Monday - so this is last call for those who want find agents FREE

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But PLEASE PLEASE click the button to submit feedback - you'll be helping the entire #writingcommunity

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June 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Writers when you are blocked or stuck or unmotivated, copy.

Joan Didion used to re-type
Hemingway.

Today I chose Ronald Dahl.

Block might be an opportunity to study by osmosis.

If you’re skeptical, ask yourself “am I better than Joan Didion?”

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June 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Slushies check your emails!

Writers there's a couple days left if you haven't signed up FREE to find agents.

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June 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Our agent matchmaking database launches tonight for Slushwire subscribers only!

Sign up FREE to use the platform before it’s a paid service!

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We need your feedback!

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June 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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SlushWire Sunday Dispatch is out!

TONS of agent discussions, submission openings, agent interviews, and query tips this week. It's getting busy.

Join us for FREE weekly alerts and access to our agent matchmaking tool.

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Screenshot of the SlushWire Weekly newsletter for Week #24, covering June 9–15. The header features the SlushWire logo with the tagline "Your lantern in the query trenches." Below, a summary shows 247 alerts: 24 from Reddit, 183 from Bluesky, and 59 from literary agents. The newsletter headline reads "Big News in SlushVille!" announcing the launch of a demo version of a new agent matchmaking platform on Monday, June 16.
June 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM