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Calling all querying writers! Write Query Hook ranks 3,200+ literary agents by how well they fit your book, so you find best-fit agents instantly!

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Slushwire Week 6 - 177 alerts for writers:

👽 Reddit: 11
🦋 Bluesky: 34
📋 Critiques: 28
🕵️ Agents: 93
📬 Openings: 11

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February 8, 2026 at 10:58 PM
🌤️ daily quote time!

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes"

— E.E. Cummings

#writingcommunity
February 8, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Query Shark 📖🦈 at it again:

https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2008/06/

original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com

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February 7, 2026 at 9:32 PM
One of the 👽 /writing 👽 greats:

"The Physical Traits that Define Men and Women in Literature...

https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/i8ztvl

#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
February 7, 2026 at 8:17 PM
🫡

"Writing is a calling, not a choice"

— Isabel Allende

#writingcommunity
February 7, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Reminder - rejection is a sign of progress!

"I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I’m going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box"

— James Lee Burke

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February 7, 2026 at 12:02 AM
📖 rejection file:

— John Grisham, "A Time to Kill"
February 6, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Today's light Query Shark reading:

https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2008/05/

original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com

#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
February 6, 2026 at 9:32 PM
👽 A r/PubTips}classic:

[PubQ] Full rejection on someone else's book

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

#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
February 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Slushwire 💌 just doing its job for you:
"[Discussion] How different is a published manuscript from..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1qrfi81

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February 6, 2026 at 5:32 PM
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds"

— George Eliot ✍️

#writingcommunity
February 6, 2026 at 2:02 PM
r/writing 👽 greatest hit:

If you can’t think of names for your characters just go to t...

https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/iahrc5

#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
February 5, 2026 at 7:02 PM
📚

"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions"

— Naguib Mahfouz

#writingcommunity
February 5, 2026 at 2:02 PM
🫖 Just a little sip of decaf rejection before bed:

"A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success"

— Bo Bennett

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February 4, 2026 at 10:47 PM
a little Query Shark for ya:

https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2009/05/

original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com

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February 4, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"There is no success without hardship"

— Sophocles

#writingcommunity
February 4, 2026 at 2:02 PM
daily rejection inspiration:

"One test of a writer is his or her ability to keep rejections in perspective, even to make use of them"

— Ralph Keyes

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February 3, 2026 at 10:47 PM
r/PubTips 👽 greatest hit:

[Discussion] 30 full requests…and no offer

https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1m0xz94

#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
February 3, 2026 at 7:02 PM
🤔

"He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope"

— Edward Albee

#writingcommunity
February 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Reminder - rejection is a sign of progress!

"Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections"

— Brian Klemmer

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February 2, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Today's 🦈 Shark action:

https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2013/09/

original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com

#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
February 2, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity"

— Albert Camus

#writingcommunity
February 2, 2026 at 2:02 PM