Just fired off my first query letter! I'm a little nervous, but I've prepared as much any person can be expected to prepare... Out of my hands and into the hands of fate! #amquerrying

Bumping my post for #questpit. #amquerrying #q - do have three full requests out 🤞🏼seeking that one yes. 🫶🏼

Despite it being Labor Day, I used this time to send to finally email two query letters out to two people who are heads of small presses I pitched to at a writing conference back in April - one wanted a full the other requested my first three chapters. #amquerrying #writingcommunity

Finished the 5th draft of my horror novel #amquerrying. Very confident this is the very best version and super proud of it. Only hoping an agent will believe in it, this draft as something worth championing! #litagents #horror
#tradpuborbust #writerssky #writingcommunity

Ugh! Missed out on #questpit as life was hectic today! One of these days I’ll be prepared to do a #pitchevent. What are some future pitch events you recommend. (Note #amquerrying a #folklore #horror novel 89,000 words and based on true events.) #writingcommunity

I had questions about why I ask for a full manuscript. These are general examples; they do not refer to a specific manuscript.

✍🏻 I fell in love with the sample only to find out the rest of the book was unwritten. 1/4

#WritingCommunity #amquerrying #MSWL #LitAgent #query #booksky

Haven't posted Delilah on BlueSky yet!
#kidscomics #kidlit #kidlitart #kidlitgn #amquerrying

Gah, waiting to find out anything feels so long.

When I finish my pick-me-up, I'm back to writing book 2. I have stuff planned, I have outlines and brain notes. Magic pirates are babbie. ❤️

#amquerrying #writer #writing #writerslife

You run away from home all of your life and end up writing about it. Old demons are fun to exorcise.

#AmQuerrying

Here’s my hot take query letter advice: write your query letter before you write your book.

It’s a hell of a lot easier to expand a blurb into a book than to condense a book into a blurb.

#writingcommunity #WIP #amquerrying

I workshopped FRAGILE at StoryBoard through StoryStudio in Chicago and recently it won third place in the Chicago Writers Association’s First Chapter Contest. I’ll be pitching tomorrow for #2025Pit.

Fellow writers, comment for a repost tomorrow.

Good luck!
#WritingCommunity #amquerrying

Calling all #ItalianAmerican #KidLit #Writers! Our first virtual meet up is on February 13th. Check out www.cia2o.org . Our vision is to create a space where Italian American kidlit creatives can find community and support each other. We'd love to meet you!

#AmWriting #AmQuerrying #WritingCommunity

Being an #NDwriter (who needs the whole arc laid out) this is part of why it’s taken me sooo long with the project ((but also I have 3 books written))
(((& the first line of next project came to me yesterday amidst the #AmEditing & #AmQuerrying)))
👀 at that backlog 😉

🤫Each📖reinterprets prophecy

Thank you @thebookdoctors and @alexsegura.bsky.social for the kind words and advice about my novel pitch at #pitchapalooza at #nycc. Excellent feedback. You gave me exactly what I need to revise and get back into the #querrytrenches in the coming days.

#amquerrying #writingcommunity

10: What did you do today?
Me: Researched agents.
—Like Perry the Platypus ?
—No, Literary agents.
—What’s that?
I explained what a lit agent does.
10: (disappointed)

Note: If a lit agent wanted to rep me, I’d be as thrilled as she would be if I was involved with Perry.

(Almost) #amquerrying