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Write Query Hook
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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/signup
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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

#writingcommunity #pubtips #querytip
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August 27, 2025 at 9:22 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.

Join our writer's club FREE - writequeryhook.com/slushwire

#writingcommunity #pubtips #querytips
Screenshot of a newsletter titled "SLUSHWIRE WEEK #28 | 7–13 JUL" featuring a large navy blue banner with the word "SlushWire" in bold white serif text and a stylized comma shaped like a drop. Below the banner is the tagline “Your lantern in the query trenches.” Statistics are shown for Reddit (21), Bluesky (56), and Agents (5) alerts, followed by a section labeled “Reddit Posts” with a linked post titled “[PubQ] Kirkus review in a query letter.”
July 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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This week's SlushWire went out later than usual last night. Check your inboxes!

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#writingcommunity #pubtips #querytips
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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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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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

writequeryhook.com/slushwire/

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

#querytips #pubtips
A webpage titled "Find Agents" displays a form asking for user information such as email, fiction vs. non-fiction, genre, subgenres, and format. On the lower right corner of the screen, there is a bright pink feedback button that says, "Hey! 👋 We'd love your feedback!" with a red arrow pointing toward it.
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?”

#writingcommunity #writingtips #writer
A close-up image of a fountain pen resting on a yellow legal pad filled with neat, cursive handwriting in black ink. The pen is transparent with visible ink inside, and the writing lines are blue with a red vertical margin line on the left. The perspective is angled, emphasizing the elegant script and the nib of the pen.
June 17, 2025 at 4:41 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.

www.writequeryhook.com

#writingcommunity #querytips #pubtips #amquerying
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
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Writers - make your voices heard!

Help make the tools our community has always wanted - FREE!

Our industry is underserved and under-innovated.

So we made a better way to find agents.

Signup at www.writequeryhook.com - we need your feedback!

#WritingCommunity #querytips #pubtips #amquerying
Bold promotional flyer for Write Query Hook with a pink and black grainy texture. Headline reads “WRITERS!” in large pink text. Main copy invites users to sign up for the free SlushWire dispatch to access a 100% free agent matchmaking tool. A large pull quote says, “We need your feedback before launching our agent database.” Footer shows launch date “06.16.2025” and the call to action: “Sign up at writequeryhook.com.
June 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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We will match you to agents for FREE!

The major agent database platforms (you know the ones) left too much to be desired, so we built one ourselves BUT...

We need feedback before launching - signup for free at writequeryhook.com

#amquerying #writerscommunity #querytips
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June 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Reading now…

#books
June 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Book Mail!

#books
June 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Slushies, this week's industry dispatch just dropped!

We've been hard at work improving SlushWire and preparing for launch.

Sign up now for FREE week query intel and access to the internet's largest agent database that matches agents to your work!

#writingcommunity #querytips
June 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Writers - how bad do you want that agent? The book deal?

#writerscommunity #Writers #writer #writingcommunity
May 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Another killer weekly dispatch.

We have a FREE weekly newsletter of hand curated discussions, posts, tips, and agent activity.

It's the critical tool I wish I had when querying.

Signup here to be informed writequeryhook.com/slushwire-we...

#WritingCommunity #pubtips #querytips
May 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Workshopping this comp breakdown - what say you #writingcommunity #querytips #pubtips #writer ?

“For fans HBO’s Righteous Gemstones, [My Book Title] baptizes them in the menopausal alchemy between Catherine Newman’s SANDWICH and the familial tension of Lynn Steger Strong’s FLOAT TEST. “
“Stack of books splattered with red ink and bold red text saying ‘EWW COMPS,’ symbolizing frustration with comparative titles for query letters”
May 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I see you, Trench Dwellers

#writing #querytips #writingcommunity #pubtips
Parody image of John Cusack's character from the film “Say Anything,” standing in front of a car and holding a boombox above his head. The boombox has been edited to display the words “QUERY LETTER.”
May 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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check out these query stats trench dwellers!

you can do it!

#WritingCommunity #querytips #pubtips
May 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Cross pollenating this #MSWL from threads!

www.threads.com/@psliterarya...

#writingcommunity #Writer #pubtips #querytips
Graphic post from P.S. Literary Agency featuring agent Nour Sallam’s #MSWL (Manuscript Wishlist): “I would love more mystery, thrillers, and psychological horror centering BIPOC and underrepresented characters.” The quote is framed in navy brackets on a light blue background, with the agency’s logo at the bottom.
May 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I try to keep a rigid schedule. Like a trustworthy, sturdy, majestic oak tree.

Try means that this tree is is typically in one of 2 states:

On fire

And

The end of the giving tree.

But I still love that damn tree. And I still try.

#writingcommunity
Surreal image of a tree symbolizing a writer’s schedule - overlaid with flames, an anxious emoji, a clock, an axe, and a saw - illustrating the chaotic balance between burnout and relentless effort, with a satirical nod to ‘The Giving Tree’ and creative perseverance.
May 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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This week, our SlushWire literary industry dispatch beamed out 95 opportunities, discussions, tips, and news to our authors!

#WritingCommunity #pubtips #querytips
May 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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I have seen some inspiring writing space pics lately so thought I’d add mine. I find that staying neat and orderly is the key to productivity and success.

#writingspacesproject #writingcommunity #writer
May 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Writers who think ‘there is no time to write’.

I wrote 155 words in ten minutes while making coffee and blending my morning smoothie. On a messy stovetop, with dishes in the sink. Yes I have kids. Laundry todo, jobs, a business, blah, blah...

#writer #writingcommunity #writingtips #write
May 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Writers, take a moment today - to gather all your excuses together and give that congregation the middle finger

By writing! You have 3 minutes while you’re fresh out of index cards, and pages, so you write on sticky notes while making coffee on your dirty stovetop.

#writingcommunity #writingtips
May 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Ritual #2: I burn stuff - Paulo santo, copal, sage - on this bronze platter.

There’s a relief of Athena and Pegasus.

Before writing I’ll say a remixed version of Homers invocation of the Muse - a tip from Steven Pressfield.

I’m still a shit writer though.

#writingcommunity
May 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Hey #writingcommunity can we share writing rituals today?

It’s my favorite. I’ll start.

I prefer to write by hand as much as possible.

When I do I first draw a door.

Here’s the story why:
May 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM