No. UPDATE 5/29/19: Still no.
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No. UPDATE 5/29/19: Still no.
Thanks so much to everyone who offered up their query for critique. As always, if you want to discuss the queries in the comments section, please be polite as if your life depended on it. Because it does. I’ll reprint the queries in their entirety and then write my comments below each one. #1.I wrote […]
I have to admit that I was surprised by some of the responses to last week’s discussion about queries. There’s so much angst out there as authors struggle to find agents that some writers adopt an ends-justify-the-means mindset and think there’s something wrong the entire process if their queries don’t work. But as I said […]
Thanks to everyone who weighed in yesterday on the question of ghost queries and queries by committee. Strong feelings all around! Having now read the relevant blog posts, I’m actually not sure that the query that kicked things off is actually the best test case for the debate that followed. I can’t speak for Agent […]
An anonymous commenter in yesterday’s post asked me how I felt about people submitting queries they did not write. This apparently is the result of a discussion in the comments section of another blog (I don’t know which one*). This isn’t actually a purely straightforward question for me and I’ll have more on my own […]
Last night’s Bachelor: not over it. Barely able to discuss. We’d better move on. Um. Not that I watched it. It’s come to my attention that this blog has been nominated for something called a Weblog Award! If you feel inclined to vote for this blog or for one of the other (more deserving) nominees […]
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