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My First Query Letter

Alright, this is embarrassing. But here we go. My first query letter with absolutely NO experience and NO input. Yes, it’s cringy. Enjoy my humiliation, alongside my snarky commentary: [After 2 paragraphs of meandering about writing and my life, now it begins] YA novel Sky Born [Genre anyone?], which as…
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So You Think You’re Ready to Start Querying…

That’s nice. But if this is your first rodeo, you might want to push pause for a smidge and soak up a few resources that’ll save you a lot of form rejections. Although, I love me a good query rejection poem, here is one of my personal favorites: There are…
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Rejection

If you want to be a writer, you will face rejection [what?!?!]. I know it’s shocking! It comes hand in hand with the territory. First, you face it in the query trenches, but even if you conquer those, your battle isn’t over. Next you have revisions, editors, publishers, and if…