also fyi that i'm talking about fulls now but we're still deep in the process of selection and even just initial scanning so please don't worry if you haven't received a request yet!

and if you're reading this, fortunately we do have a mentorship currently accepting submissions!! i'll be a mentor in this one accepting YA/NA/Adult scripts across multiple genres, and i'm so excited to be a support to you as a querier, writer and person! www.roundtablementor.com/apply

as a writer who was backed by community both from twitter and my mentor, i feel horrible knowing that new/young querying writers dont have the same resources. with that said PLEASE apply to Roundtable Mentor! not getting in doesn't mean anything, but getting in could do you a world of good <3

all my mentee friends are still friends with their mentors, and your mentor is both a career and emotional support through the horrible experience of querying. of course, thousands of authors succeed without a mentorship. but i'm saying please give it a shot !!

it's not even about the book editing - you'll grow as a writer to edit your own book. you can have friends to beta read. but a mentorship is extremely useful for industry information, for knowing how to act with agents, learning query etiquette and avoiding red flags that could hurt your career.

want that for our new generation of writers. i feel so bad that this is the community you get. this is why mentorships are SO important. it links you up to a writer with experience, who's been screened and who has actual experience. it gives you information that the old grapevine could've given you.

simply put, the careful grapevine of information for publishing and querying broke. it took two years, and it eroded slowly enough that we didn't quite realise it was gone until it was.
but i've seen the horrible querying advice and practices boosted by engagement farming on twitter. i DON'T-

blue-check click baiters and people who paid for verification and 'expertise', not people who've earned it. the broken twitter algorithm favours those who've paid, and misinformation runs rampant - about publishing, about querying. the community, overrun by bots, no longer connects organically.

THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTORSHIPS (for querying writers):
let me paint a picture - circa 2022-2024. the biggest mentorships have just died. the biggest vessel of community for publishing and writers, AKA twitter, has sunk. writing info threads are dominated by-

as a young author...both these interviews had me frothing at the mouth like people do not get me like this artist trajectory does...it is part of my foundation

I've been using goodreads less but I got an email from them announcing the winners of the awards and I was like...whew

when the same white authors are allowed to dominate the charts over and over again in categories like fantasy or romance, it pushes bipoc/marginalised stories out of the limelight and gives those stories so little chance to get popular

i know goodreads has stopped becoming our touchstone of quality, but it's still a pretty big marketing feature for many authors and still one of the biggest reader databases. many bipoc/marginalised stories rely on being in popular genre markets for publishers to take a chance on them, and-