Countdown to Publication: 5 months & 8 days. As you can see, I like to keep track of some sort of data. Whether it is the number of words written for a book, queries versus rejections (72 queries / 45 rejections), or now, a countdown to the publication of my first book. I decided my […]
Total Queries: 73Total Rejections: 28 I officially stopped querying on November 5th. My heart flutters writing that. I was a few queries shy of my 75 query goal, but I am very pleased. Immense research went into the process and can truly say I only queried a few Literary Agents that didn’t explicitly say they […]
Total Queries: 67Total Rejections: 26 I’ve been busy querying over the last two weeks. I also participated in a Twitter pitch party (#pitDark). Not sure the 8 pitches (1 per hour) actually helped. I also worry the few people who follow me thought I went crazy. Well, I am doing what I can to get […]
Total Queries: 38Total Rejections: 11 As you can tell from the updated numbers, I have been on-task with querying. This being said, I am getting back responses too. So far, all the responses have been form letters, mostly with a kind but firm no. Others have a less fluffy and more direct no. Either way, […]
Total Queries: 30Total Rejections: 6 After a month hiatus from querying, I am settling into a routine. Each day I work, help the kids with school, query, and a few other happy endeavors. I am a creature of habit, so organizing my days feels right. I queried six literary agents this week and found a […]
Total Queries: 18Total Rejections: 3 As I sit here querying, I hear Dory’s words “just keep swimming, just keep swimming” over and over in my head. It would be annoying if it wasn’t so cute. I am working my way through the agent list I made months ago. I have been updating as I go […]
Total Queries: 14Total Rejections: 3 On an incredibly positive note, I finished a short synopsis for my book and sent queries to three agents who requested it in their guidelines. YAY! Lets just take a moment to be happy. — So nice, isn’t it! Ok, back to reality. I have also been busy rewriting my […]
Query Count: 8 I thought I would include a query count from now on. I think it will keep me accountable and hopefully show great progress during this part of the journey. Oh boy, what a journey it is! This week I completely changed up the book explanation of my query. What took me two […]
I am wondering if I am now officially an author. Beyond writing something …a novel, picture book, or graphic novel… is it really when we start the journey of peddling what we have spent time, energy, and our soul on that we truly become authors? Is it the act of diving into the bits and […]
I officially sent my first query letter to a literary agent. I chose one who was looking for young adult books and listed an interest in science fiction/fantasy. I’m still having a crisis of genre, but SF/F is under the same speculative fiction umbrella as dystopian. Either way, I have decided to go with this […]