I woke up happy… Because I got my first full request for FATHER FIGURE! 🤗💚 #querytrenches #queryingauthor

What I've learned from querying my debut novel:
-Word count matters more than you think
-Comp titles are brutal to find
-Your query letter and synopsis is a completely different skill from writing your book.
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Is querying worth it for authors? Or just a big waste of time and energy?

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Querying is humbling because it forces you to answer one question honestly: do you know what your book is actually for?

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LOVE IN INK: 85k adult romance following a former reality-TV star desperate to reclaim her identity, who must decide if a love as permanent as ink is worth risking her heart again.

Love Haters x True Love Experiment x The Hills

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Soft pitching my gothic romantic fantasy heavily inspired by Swan Lake, PANTOMIME 🥀 🩰 🦢
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Just sent out the first query for my novel, Traces 😬😬😬 feels weird to be back in the game and back on bluesky! #query #queryingauthor

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From my WIP 📖🪶#urbanfantasy #queryingauthor

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The edits are done. The query package is finalized. January 5th is The Day. 🙏

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I should also keep myself accountable for the challenge formerly known as NaNoWriMo. 16,107 words into the sequel for my YA forest fairy mystery! 🧚🔎📖 Using my furlough time wisely... #amwriting #queryingauthor #nanowrimo #YAmystery

Today I want to share my synopsis for my WIP. This story is now on draft 8 and I’m expecting to have it ready for pitching (again) come January!

If you read this on the back of a book would you be called to pick it up and take it home? 🐍
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#Life is a marathon, not a sprint.

You have to say #no sometimes. Rest is not lazy. It is an #essential practice.

#Burnout is real, and it means you #need to stop. Not forever, but for right now.

Take #care of yourself.

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EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD x MY FRIENDS

The Stars & the Ghost They Created

✨ upmarket contemporary
🧠 mental health rep
💛 friendship as a driving force
🖋️ college campus setting
🌒 tragic pasts and trauma
🍂 strong seasonal atmosphere

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He Haunts Me Not 🖤

-Paranormal Romance 👻
-Forced Proximity 🏠
-Forbidden Love 💔
-Seances 🔮
-Ghost x human tension 🥀
-She’s the only one that makes him feel human 💕
-They shouldn’t want each other. So why do they? 🔥

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He Haunts Me Not 🖤
My adult paranormal romance!

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To all the artists out there who think, “Hey, what a way to spend a day.”

Rest in Peace Jonathan Larson.

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For those who have experienced disappointment.

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I have to keep it interesting!

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She’s awesome

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Had a dream that my #1 agent made me an offer of representation. Woke up at 5:30 am only to find out it wasn't real.

Here's to hoping the dream comes true! 🤞🤞🤞

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In the cold light of Day “Are things okay at home with your husband?” Hang on, what? As readers (especially of the horror variety), we can’t help but wonder “What inspired this piece of work?”…

On the Blog: Hybrid publishing in a nutshell.

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I have officially entered the querying trenches.
No panic. No noise.

Just precision. Alignment. Intention.

May the right 1s feel the fire behind the pages.
May the rest step aside.

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A vilain rises pitched as ATLA x Wicked Ya fantasy, 106k words the background is our solar system planets aligned in a straight line with starts on the outer edges

The pitch: Calypso must steak 12 divine amulets in order to regain her powers and seek revenge against her enemies. Pictures of four books: Heartless Hunter, One dark window, the prison healer, poweless the background is our solar system planets aligned in a straight line with starts on the outer edges

Themes: villain fmc, elemental magic, destroy the world, dont save it Tropes: secret identity, forbidden love, hate at first sight the background is our solar system planets aligned in a straight line with starts on the outer edges

First lines: Calypso Morana was five when her world burned. Later that cruel night, with tears and ash staining her face, she vowed every person involved in the destruction of her realm would die by her hands. Thirteen years later, that time has come. The night is still as Calypso plunges her dagger into the bark of a Red Tree, carving deeper as the trunk squirms with each cut. Thick branches above her shake, dropping a crop of crimson leaves in protest. A low warning echoes from the depths beneath the soil as the ground shifts. Slowly a root snaps up, lifting itself to freedom, slithering toward her like an eyeless serpent.

An #agentsguide to my #amquerying debut novel pitched as ATLA meets WICKED

Calypso must steal 12 divine amulets in order to regain her powers and seek revenge against her enemies.

🔪 villain FMC
🔪 elemental magic
🔪 destroy the world, dont save it

#querying #queryingauthor

An #agentsguide to my #amquerying debut novel pitched as ATLA meets WICKED

The last of her kind, one girl must steal divine amulets in order to regain her powers and seek revenge against her enemies.

🔪 villain FMC
🔪 elemental magic
🔪 destroy the world not save it

#querying #queryingauthor

Am agent giving me personal feedback on a query would be the best birthday present! 🙏🎁

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I queried 13 agents today 😳 Somebody's got to at least respond with feedback this round, right? Right?? 🤞 #amquerying #queryingauthor #RainMagic #YAFantasy #booksky #HighHopes